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		21 on Sept 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 Steve Yegge was a true visionary. In 2004 he predicted the massive popularity of (future) Electron: > web application programming is gradually going to become the most important client-side programming out there. I think it will mostly obsolete all other client-side toolkits: GTK, Java Swing/SWT, Qt, and of course all the platform-specific ones like Cocoa and Win32/MFC https://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/

toyg on Sept 25, 2018 [–]

I raise you a Joel Spolski, 5 months earlier: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

“The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.”

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