Is RAD on desktop still a viable business?

>>57028182
It's rad, yo

>>57028182
Depends on what you have in mind when you say RAD.

>>57028335
You know, like something for sales, inventory that runs locally.

>>57028447
You mean some boring database frontend you could use in your intranet without installing an application if it was written as a web application?

>>57028756
>without installing an application
Yeah, something like that but by "installing an application". Web development seems like such a fucking mess, I like desktop development way more, it also seems to me that it's way easier. More or less the GUI stuff is done for you, just some small adjustments and that's it. So you can concentrate on the logic and not worry that your program looks like shit!

>>57028884
>Web development seems like such a fucking mess, I like desktop development way more, it also seems to me that it's way easier. More or less the GUI stuff is done for you, just some small adjustments and that's it. So you can concentrate on the logic and not worry that your program looks like shit!
True, also accessibility and user ergonomics are hard to get right in web epps.
However I fear these days companies expect to be able to use those database frontends from outside, e.g. on their mobile devices.

>>57028182
enjoy your 20MiB executables

>>57028950
If you choose your tools appropriately, I bet you could have nice, maintainable desktop and mobile apps done in the time it'd take to scramble together a spaghetti web app with TrendyBubblegumAndDuctTape.js

>>57029107
>what is UPX
>hating static linkage

>>57028182
People are making plugins for Sublime/Atom/Brackets/VS Code that do the same things as IDEs/RAD, pretty soon we wont need IDEs anymore

>1280x800
what

Use Tcl & Ttk.

>>57030578
I'd argue that there's still value in drag and drop UI designers/builders, though, because they can get your UI 80-90% of the way there in a fraction of the time it'd take to write that all out by hand.

This is actually one of the reasons I prefer something like Qt or Cocoa to web front end: WYSIWYG web editors have always sucked, but that problem is not shared by other UI layout formats.

>>57029832
With basically 4 supported OSes?
>>57029107
Better than those 100MiB+ executables those electron or nw.js app or browser tabs with your web application runnning require.
>>57030578
Nah, typing input latency isn't there and probably never will be.
>>57031039
/thread

>>57031095
>With basically 4 supported OSes?
A Qt+QML app runs on anything that matters. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android.

But really, even separate mobile and desktop apps can be less of a headache for long-term maintenance than a single do-it-all web front end. It's basically a question of if you want to hire several web guys or a desktop guy and a mobile guy.

>>57031858
I can tolerate a few extra MB for a desktop app but on mobile I like lean apps.