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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 169 points 3 months ago (50 children)

Roller coaster Tycoon is one of a lifetime game.

Now everything is electron or react shit. Gone are the times of downloading fully featured software under 10mb.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (24 children)

I don't think old=good is a good mentality though, lot of people seem to have it

All the old software I know and use is exceptionally good, however I've heard about and chosen to use it because it's survived the test of time (also because it's still actively maintained and has had thousands of bug fixes over the years)

Vscode and obsidian are pretty good and they're electron, discord's alright, pretty sure steam uses some kind of web wrapper as well.

Real issue is electron is very accessible to inexperienced developers and easy to do badly, but I imagine people back in the old Unix days got an equal amount of shit bloated software

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

People only remember the good stuff. They don't usually think about all the software that sucked.