[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/20/2024 6:30 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:40:01 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> No, I don't consider web based interfaces to be comparable.
> 
> At least some at Microsoft seem to think they’re “good enough”.

Most do. Web interfaces are pretty dominant today. Maybe not
comparable, but good enough. And in most cases more than
good enough.

Who would pick a bank that insist on a desktop GUI instead of a
web interface?

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> Visual Studio Code: they could have used their own Dotnet to build it, but
> no, instead they built it on Electron.

Not much of a choice.

First release of VSC happened a year before .NET Core 1.0 was
released, so if the requirement was to support other platforms
than Windows, then .NET was not an option (they could have
tried Mono, but that was not theirs at the time).

It probably didn't hurt that the product they intended to
displace was also using Electron (Atom).

Arne