On 2016-01-15 17:29, Anthony Walter wrote: > For businesses web development is probably a better fit for their software > needs.
Yes in a way I see that, but having worked in the past (2014) in a 100% web based company developing online banking and mortgages software, I have seen first hand it is not all sunshine and roses - although everybody on the web wants you to believe it is. * Browser incompatibility plagued us every other day. Even different versions of the same browser caused problems (eg: Chrome being a big culprit). * There seems to be a million and one web technologies. So you start your project using this and that. Six months later they all go... Oh that is so old school, or component A is now the coolest toy on the web, so we should rather use X and Y instead. This cycle never ends. Web technologies or components come and go WAY to quick. * Security was a major concern * Most web code look absolutely horrible! Desktop software is not immune, but they seem to have more practise in good design. * Update Deployments were a nightmare - not nearly as easy as they make you believe. * Testing and Quality assurance is really hard. Consider me old school, or a traditionalist, but give me a "proper" programming language (Object Pascal and Java springs to mind), a compiler, debugger and desktop software. Yes web debugging has improved heaps and bounds in the last few years, but they still ain't a match to some desktop application debuggers I've seen. Regards, - Graeme - -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus