So, how would you describe the state of Flash and Silverlight development?
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I wouldn't use Flash or Silver light if I needed to target today's web. And generally speaking, that means if you're interested in being a web developer, it might not be the best choice. But on the other hand, there's plenty of existing Flash apps and if you work on one ...
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I think you deserve to feel proud of your work and I also think you should work hard to make your users happy.
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For what it's worth, there's a difference between a technology that literally doesn't work anymore its target environment (like Flash on the web) and technologies that still work but are seen as passe (most tech people call "dead").
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But even in the case of Flash, I see no reason to demean or demoralize its developers.
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Yeah, private apps need to be maintained. The public web & latest gadgets are not the entire market. Riot kept maintaining an Adobe Air app (LoL Client) for a good while even after Adobe deprecated it. Kept servicing ~100M people even after the tech was "officially" dead.
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The new LoL client will support for a good while Windows XP and consequently Chrome 49. If products are shipping
#TechAintDead
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Glad to be working in “competition” with you.
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I gotta say, working on JS at the same time as the React team has been a delight. The cross pollination of ideas is surprisingly strong and it's great for all of our users.
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Demoralization from bad things is good.
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There's no need to demoralize people using something to talk about disadvantages. And there's rarely a popular technology so bad that discouraging is worth imposing psychic costs on a whole population. Besides, it doesn't even work.
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And people usually know already when they are on unpopular stuff. Maybe no need to rub it in their faces all the time, dunno
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Punching up is okay tho
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no, it isn't.
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calling a technology "shitty", or whatever, just because it's popular, doesn't make that okay. C++ and Go developers are people too >.<
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Punching up to C++ is okay (because they know they are better than all of us ;). Go is on gray territory (they are in lol no generics area, but have job offers thrown in their face all the time based on what I've been seeing)
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No, it is not. I am a C++ programmer, and it hurt when people in the rust irc made fun of it (especially since I usually knew them well, and because they were using very, very outdated knowledge). There are people on the other side of the computer screen.
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I honestly didn't think you did that as it is for what it's worth.
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I mostly try hard to avoid it already but I want to focus on making it more zero tolerance. Example: I probably overdid it with Bitcoin rhetoric this week.
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Wait, ... are purely speculative investors also “users” of bitcoin technology? I might have to make an exception to your proposed rule...
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There's a difference between the investors and the people working on the tech. But yeah, you're mostly right.
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