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Hexigonz | 1 year ago

I’m losing my love for the web because it’s boring, not because of how it’s built. I am also guilty of this and contribute to the problem at my day job, but taking a limitless method of creation and churning out business apps and marketing sites until they inundate everything we do is a shame.

May get into a different kind of programming, web dev just feels uninspired to me right now. Note: this is my world on the web right now, I’m sure others disagree and have another opinion. Loving something is subjective.

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mattgreenrocks|1 year ago

It’s a uniquely mind-numbing medium for me.

Confluence of:

* feels like it’s made for marketing first and foremost

* vague sense of jankiness that you can’t escape

* pervasively string-typed

* JS community

* low abstraction level of web frameworks. You spend lots of time cramming information into/out of URLs

* things don’t feel ready to go out of the box

I feel more productive going slower with native apps. It’s a paradox of perception.

jakelazaroff|1 year ago

Funny, I think the stringly-typed-ness is great. Turns out that’s actually a common aspect of a lot of software I really admire, like Unix pipes and spreadsheets.