IMO it's not the language itself, it's the life time and complexity of applications: there is a a little value in developing a well designed and thought through application when its life time will be weeks and its doesn't do anything but parse a trivial request and fetch something simple from the storage.
Stitching together something that "just works" using the (almost) same set of tools as the UI is much easier.
The trend towards simplified stateless cloud-based backends is to blame.
Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook Messenger's Head of Product, contends their goal with M Suggestions is to offer a better user experience. To wit, M Suggestions does not currently generate any revenues for Messenger.
BS
Who here is still believe into good intentions of the Internet monopolies?
We all know know what that means when something is free for users
This... People are designing for one medium used one way. All of the large data workers I know (Programmers, accountants, graphics designers, architects...) HATE these new UIs and use Windows 7 / Gnome 2 style interfaces. (And often have dual monitors) I suspect it will not be long before things start to shift back...
very true
I'm a professional programmer and have been avoiding anything that is not Gnome 2 on Linux (e.g. CentOS).
On MS Windows only Windows 7 is tolerated.
Mac doesn't work for me either: ridiculously expensive non-upgradable hardware and lack of connectors any professional needs.
I feel like in the last few years OS software vendors abandoned us, developers.
Whatever; we'll find a way to configure it they way we want it, as always, right, guys?
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst