"one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps"
Not perhaps 100% but sure, in the modern age of web apps for everything I miss having proper desktop apps.
Even more so, programming web apps is nowhere near as convenient as developing desktop apps in late 90's with tools like Delphi.
I remember that. It was very easy.. I sort of have that same feeling with .NET, but I wonder if it's still going to be a layer on top of windows C system functions which might just be wrappers for system calls, which require an expensive context switch.
One big difference between win95 and now is the security aspect. Another big difference is the tons of services running on Windows 10 now that is always there (such as YourPhone). On Android for some vendors you are forced to use FaceBook and it can't easily be removed.
On second thought, I'll wait for two new programming languages to appear that make it even easier to do the interface, one making the Python-to-D interface easier, and the other making the D-to-C interface easier.
Maybe those two languages already exist, but someone hasn't posted the solution on HN yet.
Using three new awesome programming languages to seamlessly interface Python and C would solve an enormous number of interop problems.
Even more so, programming web apps is nowhere near as convenient as developing desktop apps in late 90's with tools like Delphi.