dillo gang?

  • garbology [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I think the focus on webapps has to be because of 1. the profit motive, and 2. the effects of closed source development.

    If libraries, dependencies, and everything was open source and software devs were working on things either in their spare time or owned their own production, I think we'd be trending back towards simple and elegant desktop programs or mobile apps.

    Under capitalism? No way, just wrap it in electron and ship it.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah as we get more processing power, you can just make a fucking website template that loads every possible fucking component it might ever need. No need to debug shit, just don't add padding to the 50 invisible divs making up one rectangle. Don't forget all the bell and whistle scripts! Load that fucking shit even if it does nothing.

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I can understand doing it like this for your own project, just for error handling inputs, but...

                GOD DAMN 135,000 DOWNLOADS PER WEEK. HOW MUCH OF THE INTERNET RELIES ON THIS DUDE'S 3 LINES OF CODE LIKE WHAT THE HELL