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Mention some of those things, then. I suppose programming Microcontrollers for appliances, but I have never seen job postings for that (although they must exist). Might be because I didn't look at C jobs, though. What I meant is also that most apps these days can be coded as web apps, and it is difficult to justify not doing so.
Well, I'm working in HFT - not very many exchanges speak HTTP. Web browser tech itself quite obviously can't all be built as a web app. A lot of things could be built as a web app but it's plain silly to - I don't want to lose access to my text editor when I lose networking (I could run a server on my local machine, but that's several layers of abstraction that clearly aren't necessary and I'm not confident they're h…
Text editors have been moved onto the web, and probably more and more text editing is being done online, for example in Wordpress blogs.
Nothing against "native" text editors, but again, how promising would it be to start out developing a new text editor these days? It still happens, but it is rare enough to get the top HN slot when it happens.