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		dragonwriter on Oct 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Microsoft Empire Reboots > But the web is hard to write and hard to extend/maintain. The web is distributed and distributed is hard. The problem is that it is also what people want. We haven't regressed from VB6 -- we've advanced, but the demands of the market may have gotten more complicated faster than the popular tools have advanced in their ability to simplify them.

spion on Oct 12, 2014 [–]

But the web isn't hard because its distributed. Its mostly because HTML and CSS were not designed for making applications.

gaius on Oct 12, 2014 | [–]

Exactly. If Microsoft had written Outlook in VBA as a plugin for Word, they'd have been laughed out of the room. But that's exactly what Google did with Gmail...

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