Comment by oceanswave
8 years ago
Despite the populist mindset that programming the web is a shitshow, it’s really not. Tooling these days is pretty incredible and the ecosystem is pretty great when you are found needing - issues get fixed, PR’s get accepted. It’s a much better experience than a 20 year old environment where everything is set in stone, yet bugs and inconsistencies still exist.
The tools and software for traditional windows app programming have long been neglected and the newer ones throw you into a niche — and still don’t provide a cohesive story.
I would much rather pick up react and produce a working product in less time it takes to troubleshoot XAML databindng and styles, for instance. If my windows app needed something like a map component, I can drop one in my macOS, iOS app - the same one baked into the os - and on the web have an assortment of components to choose from — with WebGL support baked in.
Also, there isn’t such thing as a DX only gfx card - it happily runs OpenGL games and apps just fine
> Tooling these days is pretty incredible and the ecosystem is pretty great when you are found needing - issues get fixed, PR’s get accepted. It’s a much better experience than a 20 year old environment where everything is set in stone, yet bugs and inconsistencies still exist.
Try to make a CRUD SPA as fast as a Delphi one, including a nice L&F by default, just with mouse clicks and setting a few properties.
> Also, there isn’t such thing as a DX only gfx card - it happily runs OpenGL games and apps just fine
This statement means you don't have much experience in graphics programming, at least regarding the fun of dealing with drivers and how OEMs classify GPU features.
So if you prefer I will rephrase it as "WebGL 2.0 on OpenGL 4.6 GPU".
Now feel free to compare what it means in GPU features.
Hint, WebGL 2.0 is basically OpenGL ES 3.0, which maps to OpenGL 4.3.
https://www.khronos.org/developers/reference-cards/
> Try to make a CRUD SPA as fast as a Delphi one, including a nice L&F by default, just with mouse clicks and setting a few properties.
Use Bootstrap for the look and feel. The browser's painting stack is far faster than Delphi's '90s style GDI, so you don't have to do anything there.
You love to use the GDI example against native devs, a Win16 technology, long superceded by better alternatives on Windows.
I only used Delphi as an example, because in 2017 the Web is yet to produce anything that approaches it, even Web Components are yet to be fully done.
A RAD tool is much more than just rendering widgets, a simple CRUD application should be doable just by clicking and setting properties, including talking to the database backend.
Speaking of WebComponents, when will Mozilla support HTML Imports?