> > Sorry, another Greg rant to follow… > I'm somewhat comforted that I might not be completely mad or grumpy.
Yes, really! It's 2017, and the best way to distribute an app is to clumsily cobble together HTML, CSS and JavaScript and cram it into a web browser. There is no duplex communication, no rich UI design, we can't even pick which development kit to use, app appearance and behaviour is inconsistent, JavaScript is someone's hobby mess that we need to generate it or build other languages over just to make it writable ... and so on to repeat myself. The current state of distributed app development using "the web" is a joke. After 25 years I can't see anything to replace it. The web is still barely better than tin cans with strings. The mobile world is a similar problem due to the three competing ecosystems which use different tools, standards, UIs and company cultures. It's nice of Xamarin to attempt to plug this gap, but it's barely working. Software development is such a stinking mess that I'd retire now in disgust if I could. I've said before that my gravestone will read "Everything F***ing Doesn't Work". *Greg K*
