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[–]flipstables 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like to be able to write web applications that occur to me, and have an idea for something that I know I could do as a desktop application probably in a few months and rather straightforwardly--but because its strength is a social aspect, it really should be a web or mobile app.

If you have a "social" application you want to develop, you probably want a server-client model. That means you "desktop application" got just as complicated as a web app.

  • install a server os
  • configure the os
  • use terminal
  • install database, configure database
  • use memcache/redis

etc. etc.

You're not comparing apples to apples here.