codeinabox

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Somewhere in the last year, a bunch of us who hadn’t shipped real code in years quietly started shipping again. Not reviewing it. Not architecting it in a doc and handing it off. Actually building it. And loving it.

I lead software for a living. That means my days are meetings, roadmaps, hiring, unblocking people, and saying “no” a lot. The last time “writing code” was my actual job was a long time ago. I never stopped being able to code — I stopped having the time to code. At least in my day job. There’s a difference, and every engineering leader reading this feels it in their bones.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev -2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

When did we start judging developers on their graphic design skills? 🤔

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

If you're going to make that claim, could you please provide some evidence.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Not sure if you were even looking for paper reviews.

I didn't write the article, I just shared it because I thought it was interesting.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I think you're misconstruing the author's argument, at no point does the author imply that Claude knows best, or that Electron apps are better. Their closing argument is certainly not an endorsement for Electron or AI slop.

Don’t get me wrong: writing this brings me no joy. I don’t think web is a solution either. I just remember good times when native did a better-than-average job, and we were all better for using it, and it saddens me that these times have passed.

I just don’t think that kidding ourselves that the only problem with software is Electron and it all will be butterflies and unicorns once we rewrite Slack in SwiftUI is not productive. The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Imagine being such a slop-brainwashed fanboi

Do you have any evidence for this? Looking through the post, and the author's other blog post titles, there is very little mention of AI or Claude.

Instead of throwing labels at the author, it's much more worthwhile to discuss their key argument about the challenges of developing native apps.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation of open source projects with closed source tests. Though I don’t know how that would work, because how would you contribute a new feature if the tests are closed? 🤔

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Check against Can I Use, all of the APIs, except for the following are supported by major browsers:

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The fact that people even bring javascript as the backend is a bit crazy to me.

To clarify do you mean replacing JavaScript just on the backend? This article is about using JavaScript on the front end.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm intrigued, what would you replace it with?

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are your thoughts on this 2023 comparison?

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

So to confirm, you don't trust blogs where the company is selling a product or service, even if they don't mention it in the article? If so, that would cover a lot of articles shared on this instance.

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

For what? I don't see any products or services being promoted in this article.

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