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Is a CS grad really that much more capable of creating a native Windows UI application than a "bootcamp-graduated js-monkey?"

I certainly did not learn anything Windows related as a CS major and little to nothing about UI/UX.

Calling people "js-monkeys" is a bad look. We can have a conversation about the quality of applications on different frameworks without stereotyping an entire group of people.


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How do you know that? Because someone switched careers they must be after "one thing and one thing only: cash?"

Just because someone has a CS degree they can't be primarily or solely motivated by cash?

Again you're making a huge, sweeping generalization about a large group of people. That's called a stereotype and it's not helpful.


not CS grad nor bootcamp, but I took a 50% pay cut when I switched from sales to software engineering


This is a major reason many companies that start native, then try to scale to 100+ person eng teams often end up incorporating web views, and then switching over entirely. Saw this happen personally for our desktop client at Dropbox.


I’m quite sure Microsoft has enough applicants to filter such candidates and only go with experienced or competent web developers.


yeah, imagine what desktop apps would look like without web developers

fast startup time, no battery drain, low system requirements, native look and feel… guess we don’t deserve it


You forgot “doesn’t exist for your operating system” in your list.


VLC wants to know your location.

(Though I recall it being a bit snappier when it was based on wxwidgets rather than Qt.)


i’d love to have an OS that doesn’t support Electron


FreeBSD. Let me know how it goes for you. Genuinely interested.


seems there's a port now (based on electron 13), although not merged upstream


FreeDOS perhaps.


I don't understand how this comment isn't the end of this ridiculous, quasi-classist meme that gets repeated ad nauseam on this board




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