Comment by XaspR8d
4 years ago
> Dev tools for Windows and iOS/ MacOs are fairly straight forward
Are they? It's probably been a decade since I touched a native GUI (and I was without a mentor and working on already-old software) so I legitimately don't know. Using something like Visual Studio's form builder was fine enough, but it was not a very expressive toolset as I recall.
Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.
I don't like that that's how it is. From an abstract perspective I'd rather not be working on web because it seems like we're trying to make a better car by building a bicycle inside of it. But the low bar for entry is hard to beat.
> Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.
Obviously you can splat some HTML into a browser and get instant results, but once you start talking about apps with even moderate amounts of interaction, the simplicity of web apps falls away quickly. If you are talking about a sophisticated app, I don't think the complexity is any less when you are using javascript/ React versus Swift/ UIKit. The big win I've seen for javascript/ web apps is the fact that you are reasonably platform independent, obviously if you use Chrome and Chrome specific APIs, that falls away too.
I had to get back into C# a year or so ago to build a commercial internal production management application, WPF with XAML was exceptionally pleasant to work with and the final product just worked with few issues.
It felt weirdly like writing Vue-like code.
Microsoft nailed it imo, VS2017 and C# have come along way since I used to do .net 3.5 stuff.
I really liked C#, it’s http and a sync/await stuff was excellent.