It will keep us in a job for a few years longer! On 22 Nov 2017 5:16 PM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, another Greg rant to follow… >> > > I'm somewhat comforted that I might not be completely mad or grumpy. > > Yes, really! It's 2017, and the best way to distribute an app is to > clumsily cobble together HTML, CSS and JavaScript and cram it into a web > browser. There is no duplex communication, no rich UI design, we can't even > pick which development kit to use, app appearance and behaviour is > inconsistent, JavaScript is someone's hobby mess that we need to generate > it or build other languages over just to make it writable ... and so on to > repeat myself. > > The current state of distributed app development using "the web" is a > joke. After 25 years I can't see anything to replace it. The web is still > barely better than tin cans with strings. > > The mobile world is a similar problem due to the three competing > ecosystems which use different tools, standards, UIs and company cultures. > It's nice of Xamarin to attempt to plug this gap, but it's barely working. > > Software development is such a stinking mess that I'd retire now in > disgust if I could. I've said before that my gravestone will read > "Everything F***ing Doesn't Work". > > *Greg K* >
