> So then we’re back to why business apps take so very long to build > nowadays, and why no-one can seem to decide which tools to use. Either way, > as an industry, our productivity when building apps is poor. >
The Gregs are revolting! Indeed ... polyfills, css, bootstrap, IE, etc ... why does all this rubbish even need to exist. I think the classic example was jQuery, which should have never *needed* to be invented, it was huge tub of grout filler to plug the holes and inconsistencies in browsers. And here I am in 2017 and I can't decide which tool to use for an important new product line. I wish 20 years ago someone had created a fresh thin cross-platform program that just ran apps in some standard bytecode format and had nothing to do with html or JS (leave that to the traditional browser). Imagine if Java applets, Flash and Silverlight had merged into some kind of unified framework with a VM, a bytecode and wide language support and designers, and all it was designed for was running real world apps and games. That was my argument this morning, that browsers should have always just browsed, and something else should have taken its place, a "distributed app player" of some kind. But oh well ... a man can dream ... *Greg K*
