On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, at 03:10 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
And, "desktop?" They still make those?
My clients run my app on their desktop, using something called "a browser."
They still make them - and until we can get browser-based applications approaching the richness and power of native desktop apps without ever more complex hoops requiring jumping through, I suppose we'll always have them. Until the desktop itself becomes a HTML client, anyway.
So, instead of locking down and maintaining one LAMP server, we're trying to keep everyone's desktop up-to-date on node?
I don't think so - it's just a command line terminal. On Windows it's a prettified wrapper for CMD.EXE, on Linux it's a prettified wrapper for Bash or whatever. Which you can extend using the npm package manager. It's nothing to do with the OS as a whole.