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0 pointsscotty794mo ago0 comments

It funny that despite how terrible, convoluted and maladapted web tech is for displaying complex GUIs it still gradually ate lunch of every native component library and they just couldn't innovate to keep up on any front.

Amazon just released OS that uses React Native for all GUI.

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skydhash4mo ago

It's easy to design bad software and write bad code. Like the old saying: "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one". Businesses don't have time to write good and nice software, so they wrote bad one.

SR2Z4mo ago

If they have time to write nice software, they generally can only afford to do it once.

Lots of Electron apps are great to use.

throwaway20374mo ago

Why do you consider Electron maladapted? It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

scotty79OP4mo ago

I didn't really mean Electron, but rather unholy amalgam of three languages, each with 20 years of "development", which mostly consisted of doing decrapifying and piling up new (potentially crappy) stuff. Although Electron with UI context and system (backend? background?) context both running js is another can of worms.

robotresearcher4mo ago

> It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

Thereby adapted to devs' needs, rather than users'.

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