Nothing is wrong with computers. Something is wrong with developers.
“You WILL accept our defined use cases for you. We aren’t interested in writing robust software. We’re interested in writing it badly in 2 days so we can spend the rest of the money on marketing.”
200 MB modern application built on top of Chrome can’t handle a few files.
Emacs from the 70/80s can handle a thousand files. Something is wrong with computers.
Nothing is wrong with computers. Something is wrong with developers.
“You WILL accept our defined use cases for you. We aren’t interested in writing robust software. We’re interested in writing it badly in 2 days so we can spend the rest of the money on marketing.”
I’m sure most developers would prefer spending the necessary time to write something good. The problem is perverse incentives in the corporate model.
Sure, for normal software on a real platform. But in mobile it’s often small startups, which means this is explicitly what they WANT.
Again, the developers, or those in charge?