>>19
My customers will be thrilled when I tell them we're switching our 3D modelling app to ncurses. Good idea.
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Anonymous2012-10-23 2:16
>>4
What a complete waste of time. And that guy claims to "teach programming." I feel sorry for his students. I guess it makes sense -- he spends half of his time rambling on about how awful it is to be a programmer and spends the the other half churning out awful programmers.
>>13
That would be my take too. We can have one guy who spends all his time pointing at things that everyone agrees could be done better. Maybe one time in 100 things will actually change.
I know that most of mainstream computing has consisted of people making things up as they went or reacting to things that were never intended to really catch on, but that sense is doubly profound when I look at the web. Maybe it's just because I'm less caught up in it that makes me more critical, but, really - text markup and a switchblade kit scripting language are what runs the world now? This is the best we could do?
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Anonymous2012-10-23 3:29
>>20
Well of course not for video/graphic/cad software you twat. I'm talking about the other 90% of all software category.
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Anonymous2012-10-23 5:37
>>22
Text markup is a good idea and javascript works though it also leaves more to be desired. It's probably not the best that humanity could do but it works relatively well and is relatively entrenched into the world.
I just wish there was some better technology for applications that need Internet connectivity. Perhaps the Android platform is that platform that the world needs to use instead of the technology that is collectively known as web 2.0.
>>1
Yeah because a program with GUI complexity in the class of Maya, 3D Studio, AutoCAD etc is totally going to be usable when reimplemented as an HTML form with a canvas tag.
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Anonymous2012-10-23 6:53
Complains about web front-end programming, offers no solutions.
>complex software written in js
>error-prone
>runs like shit
>eats as much ram as jvm
>gc can't take it
>even worse portability problems
>rebirth of native, massive anti-js crusade even larger than today
>>23 I'm talking about the other 90% of all software category.
No you weren't. You said there was no reason to use a GUI. It's too late for you to backpedal now. I've already begun the port of our software and if the customers don't like it, you are going to have to answer to them. Please post your contact information to this thread.
>>25
It will happen. And graphics hardware companies will invent technologies like CanvasBoostTM which is guaranteed to make your WebGL/<canvas> experience twenty times smoother!
>>30
He means the bold post numbers beside each post, which call the quote() function, not the fragment links.