• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    There are other options for that, though, and I’d rather have Java, with all its issues, any day.

    I think it’s more “people who trained only in web development can produce what they fondly think is a desktop application”.

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      1 day ago

      Naah its just that web development is most advanced in terms of ease of use and UI development.

      Creating native apps in java or cpp was horrible.

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        1 day ago

        Easier ≠ better. Granted, most amateur-written UIs aren’t that great, but I find anything created specifically for the web is almost always worse. They’re massively bloated, they reinvent wheels all the time (and ship them out while they’re still egg-shaped with off-centre axles), and they don’t adapt well to systems with non-default settings.

        As for Java UI coding, well, I did enough of it, back in the day. Tedious, sometimes nitpicky, but far from the worst thing I’ve ever done, codewise.