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ITT: lots of people who have promoted one trivial web technology or another who feel personally attacked by the post.
> and while we're add it I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies...
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I think the author's view that frameworks like Electron offer "no value over a native desktop application what so ever - well, perhaps with the only exception that now a 2 year old baby can make something shiny that you can click on with your mouse." is missing the point that a "2-year-old baby" making something shiny you can click on is an amazing feat, and an example of the power of the democratization of computing technology.
I do agree that tech stacks are increasingly obtuse, and not something any one person can carry in their head. I do agree that this is problematic. However, I really believe that the more individuals get access to a technology and have their barriers to using it removed, the better odds we have of letting someone with great ideas execute those ideas.
Instead, it complains about stuff like Electron.
I think the author is wrong that the technologies he complains about are all that bad.
Also, there was no world in which a traditional Unix system was a good experience for a regular person, and it's never going to happen.
When it clicks that most people are miserable because it works for them and most problems are trivial but for it being someone's job to manage it and ensure it's never solved, you can probably find some peace.
"They constantly crash..." Putting aside the downsides and reasons not to use Electron, this statement is just false. They are not "constantly crashing." I currently use at least Figma, Insomnia, Slack, Spotify, and VS Code and these apps rarely crash, if ever.
No it probably won't end. No you are not a dinosaur, but development has changed. Decades ago you could build an app from the ground up. This gave you a bunch of different layers to compose, and probably made the app overall simpler. Now most developers are given a box to create their feature in whether it's a Spring Bean, a React Component, or a serverless function, with an entire application stack under it. You cou…
That's a great perspective, but are those peeps writing the unused frameworks just wasting their time to solve a question nobody has asked? Take the D language, it's basically a poor man's Java, with a shoddy garbage collector and aspirations at being C/C++... Is that the work of heroes or the misguided?
The author is fighting a strawman. Rather than engage with the specific problems these solutions were built to solve they dismissively regard them as just flavor of the week trends purely for the sake of chasing newness. This is true of the entire post, but I'll tackle just one since it's emblematic of my issues with all the rest: The argument for Electron and React Native isn't "it's modern", it's "it's much cheaper…
> The argument for Electron and React Native isn't "it's modern", it's "it's much cheaper".
This is spot on. I’ve worked on a big electron project before for a massive firm and a lot of work was done before picking that direction. Proof of concept was done for a couple of alternatives but electron ended up better on balance.