The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014

jfruh writes: "The current state of the world of software is going in two radically different directions. On the one hand, server-side software is maturing, with wide consensus on tools and techniques that can be used across platforms. On the other hand, client-side programming is an increasingly fragmented mess, with the need to build apps for the Web and for multiple PC and mobile platforms, all natively. But of course, the server and client sides have to work together to deliver what people actually want."

Nothing New

[Akratist]

Programming always has been, and always will be, a mess. There is a reason that maybe two percent of the people in the world can actually do this work -- the other ninety-eight percent are sane and don't think like psychotics locked in the Red Bull factory.

PLEASE LOOK UP SCHIZOPHRENIA

[Yew2]

I so hate when people confuse it with multiple personality disorder. And so do I!

Re:Deliberately missing browser features

[jellomizer]

What do you mean, this was the point of ActiveX. ActiveX didn't cause any security concerns.
It isn't like when someone is asked to accept to install something, they will just hit Yes, to get it out of the way.

The Web isn't a good way to do high performance computing. The good news is, most people don't need high performance.