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▲ mlinhares a day ago

I lived through:

* before and after rails;

* before and after js UI frameworks;

* before and after scaled machine learning;

* now before and after LLMs;

And saying we haven't advanced much is wild.

▲pjmlp 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I compare Electron with Delphi and VB, we have regressed by light years.

And for the pixel perfect complaints, it only shows lack of care to not have learnt how layout managers work.

▲jazzypants 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This doesn't feel like a natural comparison to me. Electron isn't completely oriented around a visual RAD builder like either of those frameworks so it kind of sounds like apples and oranges.

▲pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent [-]

On the contrary, Electron is for Web developers that don't care enough to learn about native GUI coding.

Managing it would be the right meaning for fullstack.

▲xandrius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh yeah? However little you enjoy Electron as a philosophy, I'm not really sure you've ever had to maintain different codebases for different types of machines, let alone OSs.

Electron and you throw your website basically into anything and it works.

▲pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

My dear I am into computers since 1986, we had plenty more operating systems and hardware architectures to worry about when trying to write some form of portable code.

Both ways up in snow and without boots.

▲flohofwoe 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Software of the early 2000s pretty much looks the same as today, quality has typically even regressed. Busy-work around the development process doesn't automatically result in better software.

▲xxs 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The simple observation is that you're very young, if the js/rails the beginning of time.

▲troupo 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We have veritable supercomputers, and most software is as sluggish or more sluggish than in 2000s.

There are some local improvements, but overall software is just as shitty and buggy as 20-30 years ago, and most of it doesn't do anything different