you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 71 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

When all you have is a hammer JavaScript, everything looks like a nail web page.

Kids these days don't bother learning languages that actually compile to native apps.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    All of my degree was in C, C++, C#, Java, etc. and the one class I had that did web applications did Java backends and middleware with PHP frontends. It wasn’t until I got into the industry that I had to learn Angular, Electron, React, Django, etc.

    I don’t think it’s the devs making these decisions.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's the minimum effort that translates to minimum time that translates to minimum cost for the business. Why hire another developer for a mobile app (or another platform) when you could just have the same web dev write it. Or without hiring another dev, why have the same dev need to build up tooling in another language when you can just reuse from the existing platform

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It is the devs. Management says they need it fast then the devs say "fuck you here's your browser tab app".

    I deam of a dev job that would let me actually write a good app..

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    To add insult to injury, the demands are often really unclear. Changing something in an electron app is often pretty straight forward. Not so much in a C# or especially C++ app

  • source
  • parent