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  • I’m still convinced Electron only exists because there’s a huge surplus of mediocre web devs.

    Electron solves hardly any problem that QT, GTK or all those other UI frameworks didn’t already solve 20 years ago. But for QT you need at least a few developers with passing knowledge of something other than js and css. And those guys are expensive.

    OR, it is a huge conspiracy by Micron et al to increase demand for memory modules.


  • Because you don’t know what you’ll need that wrapper beforehand, that’s my entire point.

    Unless you’re only doing trivial changes, the chances are very high that you won’t be able to design the class structure. Or, you end up essentially writing the code to be able to write the tests, which kind of defeats the purpose.




  • Tests first is only good in theory.

    Unit tests typically test rather fine grained, but coming up with the structure of the grain is 80% of the work. Often enough you end up with code that’s structured differently than initially thought, because it turns out that this one class needs to be wrapped, and this annotation doesn’t play nice with the other one when used on the same class, etc etc.












  • Germany has a worker problem right now.

    Amazon pays 2€/h above minimum wage for warehouse workers, Lidl pays 1€ above minimum wage for stocking shelves.

    Yes, there are issues with job training, but a) nurses don’t get paid that bad (a single mom nurse managed to get me through school and a master’s degree) and b) you can’t find any workers at all, currently. Germany has de facto full employment right now. Those who are unemployed are almost always unable or not allowed to work.