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1. Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 08:44:59 UTC Elias Mårtenson

   I have spent some time doing web development recently, and I want to share some of my experiences:

   Every single aspect of it is horrible. It has zero redeeming qualities.

   Thank you for your time.

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   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 08:48:11 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     • Holger

     @schaueho That's true. My main UI is using JavaFX, and I've had my fair share of screaming at that API as well.

     Funnily enough, it's not just the UI side of web development. Right now I'm fighting with getting webworkers to load properly in my development environment. The root cause is a combination of Gradle and the dev server, neither of which have any reasonable documentation. So there isn't even any UI code involved.

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   • Holger (schaueho@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 08:48:19 UTC Holger

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     @loke Honestly, I think programming anything UI related is horrible.

   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 05:58:15 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     @loke As much as I detest web development, I have to agree in one aspect: I don't know any other modern environment that lets you produce (layout, styling, animation,...) so much with so little (software, knowledge, structure,...)

     It's the ideal environment to start self-teaching in.

     Unfortunately, that means there's also a lot of really low quality stuff there, made by people at the beginning of their learning curve.

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