Veteran techie, music nut, kinkster, gamer, skeptic, internet explorer.
I'm on Wire (https://wire.com) - @Koz
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@softwizard Nothing wrong, just personality differences.
@softwizard Any time!
Ahhh, yeah. So I'm familiar with this now. (Wire runs on this model, and I have a love/hate relationship with it.) It's basically JRE all over again; write once, deploy to many. Except there's a huge fuckin' abstraction layer there to act as an intermediary.
I agree completely, but the alternative is to maintain a separate client for each platform. So I can see the allure. Which is better? Think it comes down entirely to how many resources one has. I'd prefer to see native, but developers are few...
Ah, the old "software everyone loves to hate but can't help using it cause it's so gosh darn easy!"
What's the problem with it though?
@bea Gotcha, missed that part!
So is electron favorable, or not?
@bea
That, in my opinion, is a failure of transparency by the seller, and lack of understanding by the consumer.
That, in my opinion, is a failure of transparency by the seller, and lack of understanding by the consumer.
@bea
I'm not necessarily in agreement that "capitalism" as a system causes bad software. But I do think the software business model has outraced people's understanding of what they're trading. People can understand the value of a product versus what currency they hand over for it. But when software is presented as being "Free" (ie, no price), there's poor understanding of what the price truly is....in terms of personal information of the recipient.
I'm not necessarily in agreement that "capitalism" as a system causes bad software. But I do think the software business model has outraced people's understanding of what they're trading. People can understand the value of a product versus what currency they hand over for it. But when software is presented as being "Free" (ie, no price), there's poor understanding of what the price truly is....in terms of personal information of the recipient.
So you're talking about "time to market". People cut corners, or release the minimum viable product (MVP) in order to get out first and gain market share.
It's certainly a strategy, and it can pay off.
But I don't think it's a sure win. Quality matters too; cut too many corners and you'll have a non-functioning product. Fail to maintain it and people will go elsewhere.
And sketchy shit will absolutely sink a piece of software.
@bea How?
@KevinMGranger It invaded and conquered Thanksgiving.
The shopping center near me had it's Christmas decorations up before Oct 31st so I think it's just rolling through neutral territory so it can mount a full on assault against Halloween.