The tools (and environments!) 30 years ago were better suited to solving the problems of 29 years ago than the tools are today in solving the problems of the upcoming year.
Specifically, our target environments distance us too greatly from the problem(s) being solved on the main/"happy" path.
Is there a WYSIWYG GUI builder for WWW/Android/iOS as good as Delphi was for win32 or Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP?
If not, then I have to waste a ton of time working on UI boilerplate code instead of the important & fun stuff.
> The tools (and environments!) 30 years ago were better suited to solving the problems of 29 years ago than the tools are today in solving the problems of the upcoming year.
A.k.a. The problems have become harder (stricter requirements, more ambitious objectives), which is entirely different than the tooling having become worse.
acuozzo|1 year ago
Specifically, our target environments distance us too greatly from the problem(s) being solved on the main/"happy" path.
Is there a WYSIWYG GUI builder for WWW/Android/iOS as good as Delphi was for win32 or Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP?
If not, then I have to waste a ton of time working on UI boilerplate code instead of the important & fun stuff.
jaggirs|1 year ago
A.k.a. The problems have become harder (stricter requirements, more ambitious objectives), which is entirely different than the tooling having become worse.