Are we losing enterprise desktop?

You can be hired on frontend, and that means you write client-side code, but with JS (or others *script)

You can be hired on the backend and will write server-side

You can be hired on mobile and will write Android/iOS code

But what do we have now on the desktops?

1. Electron-based, CEF-based applications written by frontenders or full-stack developer

2. CLI, TUI, or Qt/wx/gtk utilities written by backenders

3. A cross-platform application written by mobile developers (flutter, kotlin compose mpp)

4. Really native programs, oh, never seen them, or maybe on macos only :(

First ones - optimized to be run in a browser, so keeps the browser with them, and voilà, it's become unoptimized and big

Second - we have better-optimized code, but an interface can be improved or should be written from zero, however, those guys never work with designers and...

Third and fourth variants - perfect, but almost never seen them in enterprise

But businesses take care mostly for money and we get electron or CEF(spotify, geforce now, steam) and memory leaks and etc.

So, we have no such thing as desktopdev or desktopend (deskend) software in the enterprise world, and I hate it.

I would definitely say there's almost no desktop front-end work anymore: I still see plenty of enterprise software, but whether it's on-premise or cloud-based, the interface tends to be via the web browser.

Operating systems should have become our "web browsers" long ago. Apps as standalone browsers is backwards, these are a waste of resources and multiple security holes.

Enterprise desktop implies Windows. There is just not that much representation of Microsoft stacks in the consumer-facing or venture capital driven Silicon Valley tech scene. But I'm sure there's tons of these people working on Win32 apps in enterprise IT departments and legacy software vendors across the interior of the country. Not to mention all kinds of specialized devices (industrial automation, AV control systems, medical scanners, etc) have Windows computers in them and are operated through Windows desktop apps.

Nothing new about this. Well before everyone had a smart phone in their pocket, enterprises were building client/server apps that targeted the browser instead of desktop apps.