WTF is going on in web development nowadays that makes people ask me to compile C# projects to Electron?

Let that sink. I'm being asked to compile a C# project that can run as a beautifully integrated seamless *native* and lightning fast application... to JS so it would run as a *website* in the Electron *browser*. Am I the only one seeing how much cancer that is?

Web development is the cancer itself. It's getting bloated and more bloated imo.

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As a webdev.... yea fuck that shit!

I really think we are in the middle of another web development bubble. Every time this happens we get a bunch of technical managers who have no idea how to set a coherent management strategy for their projects, and a bunch of developers who have no idea how to develop. The bootcamps are part of this but honestly, I've met people with degrees from top universities who can't develop their way out of a paper bag. Their code doesn't meet requirements, it's ugly and difficult to maintain, the UIs are buggy and a nightmare to use. Totally incomprehensible and the only conclusion that makes sense to me is that people are in it for the $$$ and loathe every minute of actually doing it.

Recently I actually fiddled around a bit with Electron and it turned out by itself it can actally run really blazing fast. I don't know what the hell is always going wrong that these apps feel so damn bloated all the time.

And nothing against a small script somewhere, but the amount of animations and other shit on almost every website is insane. I think I haven't seen a normal news website without autoplaying, scrolling videos or popups in a whole month. Even with adblock websites have become more unusable than they were before ad blockers became popular.

I’m gonna fucking hurl, excuse me?

When you say "people" want you too do this, are we talking coworkers in a professional setting, anonymous users on github, or some odd friend who read an article once?

@alexbrooklyn FFS!

@arcsector I'm guessing a job interview

@arcsector @netikras It's 3rd time in last 30 days that our CTO came in with CSO, sales rep and a PR person asking if we could do this for a customer who wants to run one of our solutions on a Mac. I just borrowed one from our testers, stayed late and prepared a native build because it's less cumbersome than arguing. FML.