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People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-not-yet-lost dept.

Annie Peterson writes "Paul Graham has been making the argument that desktop development is dead — That's his premise for declaring Microsoft dead as well, and he claims that no one out there likes to develop for the desktop anymore. But that's not true, or is it? Desktop development is easier, faster, more productive, and infinitely more enjoyable — right? The question is, since web apps were originally built on desktop applications themselves, have the tables flipped? Or is it just wishful thinking?"

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  1. OFF TOPIC. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:I like developing for the desktop by bensch128 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ummm, why not try for RubyQt instead?

    heh
    Ben