Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
rdri@lemmy.world 1 week agoBecause we have webdevs and think of them as devs. They are not devs. They are mostly idiots.
Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
rdri@lemmy.world 1 week agoBecause we have webdevs and think of them as devs. They are not devs. They are mostly idiots.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What do you mean? Webdevs are devs, just within a specific platform. And like any dev, they can suck or be great.
rdri@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It just so happens that overwhelming amount of them do what they should not do - create actual apps (webapps in reality). We could thank Google or frameworks for this, but ultimately their incompetence leads to situations like this. Webdevs thinking of everything as a platform for their stuff that should be working at all times. If they were actual devs they would build proper native apps, think more about how devices actually supposed to work, and rely on cloud less.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What’s wrong with webapps?
I get that many could be static pages, but you’re comparing web vs desktop. And in that case, I prefer web most of the time. Why? It works the same everywhere, and I can probably access it just fine on my phone without having to get their mobile app, which probably has fewer features and more telemetry.
Web doesn’t make sense for everything, but it’s far better than desktop apps for relatively simple use cases. If the app isn’t performance sensitive and doesn’t need to store a ton of data, web is my preferred platform, especially since I’m a Linux user and would likely need to run the app through WINE instead.
rdri@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not desktop. Native. You can build native apps for smartphones and pretty much anything. Web comes into play when you decide you won’t build native version of what you want. In some cases that is guided by thoughts like “I know web will fit this project. I know the platform and will remember to keep memory and internet usage low”, but in most cases it’s about “no idea what that startup is about, but I know some AngularJS and they said I can use AWS so that’ll do”.
Similar thing is happening now with Unreal Engine 5. The difference between devs and webdevs became very similar to the difference between coding and vibe coding.
I know by data you mean “data I care about as a dev” but that should also include data that is actually processed and saved on user’s device. And webapps are notoriously bad at keeping their caches and data usage low.