Mobile is eating a consumer world, though. It is s...
# tornadofxe
elizarov
03/28/2018, 2:22 PMMobile is eating a consumer world, though. It is slowly making its way into semi-pro and pro space (will take more than a decade to consume it, I think), so there is a challenge to keep up. There is React/Native and you successfully use it from Kotlin/JS, but I’m not a believer in the concept. All “functional” thing looks nice on paper, but then you have to write lots of boiler-plate code for a trivial task of not loosing user’s edited text, selection, and cursor position, when some new data arrive from a backend. Databinding is badly missing there.
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Ruckus
03/28/2018, 3:48 PMDo you think this is a trend that will continue? I know the mobile first idea has some huge push behind it (many of those behind it have a vested interest in ensuring their users can (and hopefully will) user there services at all times), but I wonder if it's going to continue till mobile entirely takes over, or will it taper off at some point and retain some distinction between the mobile and desktop worlds?
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elizarov
03/28/2018, 7:55 PMPro segment will stay. Professional tools were always expensive and different in every profession. For desktop it means the market is shrinking. Desktops (Personal Computers) will be slowly disappearing from homes. But desktop will stay as a professional tool is some form.
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Ruckus
03/28/2018, 8:01 PMOkay, that makes sense. Thanks