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This is a classic 'My job is X, so I presume people doing Y also have the same experience"

Software developers and PM's can generally get by with a browser, but woah boy good luck getting the finance world off of desktop Excel/Bloomberg (as the most prominent example of an immovable force against browser apps).



But even folks in the "happy path", of using VS Code and Slack find that the web apps are slow and terrible.

The only people who seem to think this is any good appear to be in their 20's and not actually experienced with desktop apps.


> The only people who seem to think this is any good appear to be in their 20's and not actually experienced with desktop apps.

So it’s just a matter of time until this swing of the pendulum is complete. Then we can rediscover Qt and Tcl/Tk.


Oh happy days.




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