> The landscape got complicated because now we build beautiful and elaborate things
As someone who works at a large company which has TONS of crud web apps, let me just say ...
No.
We don't.
We build ugly disasters, badly, with loads of bugs and unusable interfaces.
And of course, only very rarely are 2 crud apps built using the same stack. We have everything from Oracle WebForms to Ruby on Rails, to AngularJS on NodeJS.
And may I add, the "beautiful" ones are the worst in terms of usability. Can we place take all the frameworks that don't have a very good and built-in data grid and shoot them ?
As someone who builds SaaS sites the shit I build now are miles more elegant and functional than the apps I used to build back in the Visual Basic days, or even earlier when I was writing software for DOS. We may bitch and moan all we like but the fact is that the average web app of today is way more usable than the average windows app some twenty years ago.
I won't argue that the situation with web development is ludicrous, we have a bazillion of js frameworks that last no more than two to three years until the next shinny thing pops-up not to mention changes in pretty much every aspect of the stack, from devops to server-side languages and whatnot.
As a testament, take a look at the available dashboard templates in the major template sites. Some of them are so beautiful they make me droll. We never had so gorgeous interfaces in recent history.
Well, perhaps it's that I used Delphi back in the days, but I have a different experience. Delphi apps the equivalent of tiny webapps were orders of magnitude simpler.
As someone who works at a large company which has TONS of crud web apps, let me just say ...
No.
We don't.
We build ugly disasters, badly, with loads of bugs and unusable interfaces.
And of course, only very rarely are 2 crud apps built using the same stack. We have everything from Oracle WebForms to Ruby on Rails, to AngularJS on NodeJS.
And may I add, the "beautiful" ones are the worst in terms of usability. Can we place take all the frameworks that don't have a very good and built-in data grid and shoot them ?