But when a business just wants a line of business app, are these good answers now? Do they care if it could be used by billions of people? The odd one might care. Most won’t.
Won’t they be more concerned with taking 6 or 8 times longer, and costing proportionately more? Not every app is at the high-end. Most aren’t. And now I watch daily nightmares around deploying web apps too. What exactly have we done to ourselves? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 November 2017 4:46 PM *To:* ozDotNet <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: Creating a browser-based product I'm not sure this is much more of an issue now than it was. Back in the day we had to decide between Delphi, VB, Powerbuilder, C++ among others when building a Windows app. And once we decided that we had to work out which third party libraries we wanted to use with them. If I take an old 15 year old Delphi app I have it would take me the best part of a week to get it compiling again now if I had to build the dev machine from scratch. On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Greg Low <[email protected]> wrote: 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.
