Chris Angelico writes: > General principle: People who complain about email are using > suboptimal clients, people who complain about non-email systems are > using suboptimal services. And there's nothing that's truly optimal in > either case (some email clients do come close, but only for their > current users, not for new users).
There's a big difference, though. Email users choose their own email clients. If you choose GMail, well, "sorry, you chose GMail." (I understand that avoiding GMail on Apple handhelds is kinda hard, AppleMail sucking amazingly and all. But writing technical discussion on a phone is strictly for disasters, anyway, at least IME.) We don't have such a choice about the non-email service *at all*, except to use the inevitably sucky email interface. Theoretically one could use the API that clients-in-the-browser use and design and write a new client, but they're often not documented and often don't make backward compatibility promises. Practically, it's a massive undertaking. Not to mention that those alternative clients don't yet exist, whereas email clients that one can modify (or libraries to build one) exist in pretty much every language. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
