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Lowest common denominator.

We put it on every kids desktop in the 1990's. We put it on every kids phone in the 2000's. We are shocked when they reinvent the wheel with in the 2010's.

Now in 2020 they are trying to tell me all the kinks are worked out with frameworks and to get your javascript to work in a browsers you first need to compile/transpile it.

Skip the whole multi-platform idea and focus on electron with all the custom bells/whistle not available on all the platforms. Btw how does meltdown/spectre affect the outlook on security with all these application in their own little v8 kingdoms?

I'm not cynical, I'm concerned.



Indeed. The mess we're in is one of crap upon crap.

I wanted to use a CSS framework the other day, and I all but had to rip the project apart manually just to get the files without them stuffing a heavy build tool like Gulp down my throat.

All of this... just to get some !@#$ing CSS.


And before that every computer had C and Basic. There seems to be a common aspect here, the default programming languages suck :)


My first one came with ZX Basic and Z80.

The next one came with debug and GW Basic.

Followed by another one with debug, GW Basic and QBasic.

I always had to buy my Assemblers, Pascal and C++ compilers.

Which computers came with C, besides UNIX workstations?




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