LOL "WebDevs actively work to prevent their usage" ... conspiracy thinking much?
I've worked plenty with SOAP but never liked it, TBH hated it, like pretty much almost everyone else I knew. You know, those corporate and proprietary "standards" tend to be over complicated, over engineered, feel like "designed by committee" and are terrible to work with.
The open web standards though are simple, easy to work with, and are sufficient in 95% of the common scenarios, that's why people like them. In case you need more sophisticated, you step up to GraphQL.
Microsoft got better yes, mainly due to their leadership, Satya Nadella is lightyears ahead of what Steve Ballmer ever was, it's like the evolution from the chimpanzee to Homo sapiens. And they (Microsoft) finally embrace open standards and aren't actively trying to sabotage them (remember IE6/7/8, ActiveX, JScript?)
MS also abandoned Silverlight, and embraced HTML5, JS, CSS ... so ironically your "heroes" have started to bet on and embrace the platform that you dislike.
Seriously though, I fully admit that the web was conceived as a platform for content delivery - it was never designed or meant to be an application development platform - a lot of it feels bolted on, even though arguably a lot of effort has been put in to improve it as an app dev platform (of course it's not true that JS hasn't made any progress).
That's why I made the comparison with mobile ecosystems (Android and iOS) with their native client apps, and wondered why a similar development hasn't taken off on the desktop - web for content delivery, native apps (connecting to backends via web technologies) for apps.
Oh and by the way - if you despise Javascript as a language (and even Typescript, conceived by MS) then there are plenty alternatives (all of which "compile" to JS, so that you don't have to write that): Elm, Dart, ReasonML (the last one is really interesting and I'd expected it to take off, but it hasn't) and others ... so I'd say that you can hardly use the weaknesses of JS as an argument against "the web".
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LOL "WebDevs actively work to prevent their usage" ... conspiracy thinking much?
I've worked plenty with SOAP but never liked it, TBH hated it, like pretty much almost everyone else I knew. You know, those corporate and proprietary "standards" tend to be over complicated, over engineered, feel like "designed by committee" and are terrible to work with.
The open web standards though are simple, easy to work with, and are sufficient in 95% of the common scenarios, that's why people like them. In case you need more sophisticated, you step up to GraphQL.
Microsoft got better yes, mainly due to their leadership, Satya Nadella is lightyears ahead of what Steve Ballmer ever was, it's like the evolution from the chimpanzee to Homo sapiens. And they (Microsoft) finally embrace open standards and aren't actively trying to sabotage them (remember IE6/7/8, ActiveX, JScript?)
MS also abandoned Silverlight, and embraced HTML5, JS, CSS ... so ironically your "heroes" have started to bet on and embrace the platform that you dislike.
Seriously though, I fully admit that the web was conceived as a platform for content delivery - it was never designed or meant to be an application development platform - a lot of it feels bolted on, even though arguably a lot of effort has been put in to improve it as an app dev platform (of course it's not true that JS hasn't made any progress).
That's why I made the comparison with mobile ecosystems (Android and iOS) with their native client apps, and wondered why a similar development hasn't taken off on the desktop - web for content delivery, native apps (connecting to backends via web technologies) for apps.
Oh and by the way - if you despise Javascript as a language (and even Typescript, conceived by MS) then there are plenty alternatives (all of which "compile" to JS, so that you don't have to write that): Elm, Dart, ReasonML (the last one is really interesting and I'd expected it to take off, but it hasn't) and others ... so I'd say that you can hardly use the weaknesses of JS as an argument against "the web".