[Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

Graeme Geldenhuys mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk
Sun Jan 17 02:10:10 CET 2016


On 2016-01-15 17:29, Anthony Walter wrote:
> For businesses web development is probably a better fit for their software
> needs.

Yes in a way I see that, but having worked in the past (2014) in a 100%
web based company developing online banking and mortgages software, I
have seen first hand it is not all sunshine and roses - although
everybody on the web wants you to believe it is.

* Browser incompatibility plagued us every other day. Even different
versions of the same browser caused problems (eg: Chrome being a big
culprit).

* There seems to be a million and one web technologies. So you start
your project using this and that. Six months later they all go... Oh
that is so old school, or component A is now the coolest toy on the web,
so we should rather use X and Y instead. This cycle never ends. Web
technologies or components come and go WAY to quick.

* Security was a major concern

* Most web code look absolutely horrible! Desktop software is not
immune, but they seem to have more practise in good design.

* Update Deployments were a nightmare - not nearly as easy as they make
you believe.

* Testing and Quality assurance is really hard.


Consider me old school, or a traditionalist, but give me a "proper"
programming language (Object Pascal and Java springs to mind), a
compiler, debugger and desktop software. Yes web debugging has improved
heaps and bounds in the last few years, but they still ain't a match to
some desktop application debuggers I've seen.

Regards,
  - Graeme -






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