joshburgess

Have you seen the things people have built with Electron? I wouldn't underestimate the capabilities of HTML/CSS/JS for desktop apps when you have projects like Slack, Atom, Visual Studio Code, GitKraken, the Brave browser, etc. all using Electron to build their desktop apps.

Why are they moving back to .csproj?

Atom is extremely buggy. I've had it freeze up and crash on me so many times. Very frustrating.

MVVM. Model-View-ViewModel. It's a well known design pattern that exists outside of Knockout.

IntelliJ IDEA + Kotlin. Kotlin is created by JetBrains themselves and is very easy for C# devs to pick up and can be used anywhere Java would be used.

Booooooooooo. Bootstrap is the most popular CSS/UI framework on the planet. I don't get why they continue to depend on jQuery while most modern app frameworks are abandoning it...

Sass by default FTW!

It says they rewrote all of the JS using ES6... Does this mean jQuery is no longer a dependency?

True, but by default it doesn't use React or Angular and provides Blaze for creating UIs.

It supports React and Angular as of recently, I suspect, simply to maintain itself as a competitor to other stacks, due to the extreme popularity of React and Angular.

Honestly, there are plenty of other options out there besides Angular and even React, despite the tremendous hype around it at the moment.

Aurelia seems to be the best ideas from Angular + the best ideas from the creator's previous framework, Durandal, in one framework with much cleaner syntax and much less complexity than both Angular & Angular 2.0.

Ember has made some big updates recently, rewriting their rendering engine to use a virtual DOM.

A lot of people still seem to really like Meteor.

Mercury, Mithril, Ractive, JSBlocks, etc. are all smaller, lesser known projects with a lot of potential.

Shadow of the Colossus did pretty well though, didn't it?

All 3 of those are fantastic games. Cheers.

Okami was rereleased on a newer console at one point wasn't it? I think it probably did a little better.

But yeah, in general, I think that because AAA games cost so much to make and usually cost more to buy, they have to cater to the masses more in order to be successful, whereas indie game devs are more like startups.... lean and mean. So, they don't require the same level of sales to be a success, and they are also free to make more niche and obscure games.