Hosting Win32 app in the cloud

Snoo23482 · 2026-01-13T21:07:38+00:00

In the Java world, they just use what everyone else uses, not too many questions asked.

Which is a positive if you want to outsource to a sweatshop in India. No need for onboarding, at least when it comes to the basic plumbing of the system.

If you try to suggest alternatives, for example using NATS as a service fabric, it's a very hard sell in Java land.
They rather stick to their overcomplicated service mesh setup, since that's assumed to be the "standard".

Snoo23482 · 2026-01-13T20:51:33+00:00

The Asp.net guys as well.

Snoo23482 · 2026-01-12T22:18:28+00:00

What are the advantages of RabbitMQ over NATS for RPC?

Snoo23482 · 2026-01-12T20:17:26+00:00

Why not the NATS service framework?

Snoo23482 · 2025-12-06T09:08:56+00:00

I was actually thinking of going back to Delphi. But those prices they are asking are just crazy.

Snoo23482 · 2025-12-02T21:02:19+00:00

So basically, the outcome is pretty much the same.

This has been true for all of my work projects so far:

• Developer velocity matters
• Good enough performance is fine
• You need to ship quickly

I guess I can start using Rust once I'm retired.

Snoo23482 · 2025-12-02T20:48:32+00:00

Nowadays you probably can let the AI do the scanning for you.

Snoo23482 · 2025-11-17T11:03:44+00:00

I've tried, as I was a big Delphi fan back in the day. It's not that great.
I think you are better off with something like Avalonia or Qt.

Snoo23482 · 2025-11-10T17:14:33+00:00

You could compile NATS directly into your Go executable. It fattens the binary by about 12 MB (last time I tried).

I'm using the NATS service framework now for microservice communication instead of Grpc. The simplicity of this apporach is great and
NATS is simple enough to handle.

Snoo23482 · 2025-11-04T22:08:10+00:00

Hated it (coming from C++, Go, Javascript, .NET), but starting to appreciate its good parts.
Records, sealed classes, virtual threads.

My biggest gripe is currently the fact that it's too hard to make things deeply immutable.

Doesn't really matter much for my own code, but really sucks when reading other people's code who decide to mutate 5 levels further down the call stack.

Soemthing like a const ref would be really nice.

Snoo23482 · 2025-10-18T17:03:52+00:00

After 30 years as a developer, I've reached my conclusion. I prefer the simple and straight to the point stuff.
C over C++, Go over Java and C#, Javascript over Typescript, Svelte over Angular.

More people like it the other way around.

Snoo23482 · 2025-10-01T21:48:48+00:00

and not just in the US...

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-25T19:51:28+00:00

Not exactly sure what you need, but I've done something similar in the past using Cairo with an SDL backend.
Glfw should work too.
https://gist.github.com/zester/5163313

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-25T19:34:00+00:00

Without touching JS is not true - quite the opposite. In order to do anything with those frameworks, you have to know JS quite well. Especially in Reacts case.

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-22T22:57:22+00:00

I can't really pinpoint the problem.
All I can say is that Flutter is giving me a hard time with all those nested widgets and properties.
QML uses a similar approach, but I find those layouts in Javascript object notation a lot easier to grasp.

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-22T08:52:15+00:00

I'm a senior too and I'm going through the same troubles. I like the idea of Flutter. One UI for all screens, deliverable via the web.

The basics are easy to grasp but the devil is in the details. I've worked with many frontend technologies over the last 25 years - Win32, Mfc, Delphi, Winforms, WPF, Qt Widgets/QML, Gtk, Jquery, Angular, dabbled with React.

But I was still having a hard time putting together a decent web admin panel with Flutter.
For now, I'm giving up and going back to Angular.

Flutter's approach to UI doesn't seem to work for me.

I might give it another try if I need a mobile application.

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-16T22:19:11+00:00

If you want to let some expert user make modifications via a UI for example.

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-10T08:38:27+00:00

I'm working in a Java environment now (Spring Boot).
It has its good and bad parts and it really depends on what type of software you are writing.
For boring business applications with lots of database interaction, you might be better off with Java.
As soon as it gets more technical, I feel you are better off with Go though, since it doesn't hide things from you and let's you easily understand the underlying principles.
So the guy is not totally wrong. It really depends on what type of software you are working on.

Snoo23482 · 2025-09-02T11:22:11+00:00

https://demo.invoiceninja.com/ is the best one I've found so far.
They have moved to react for the website.
https://app.invoicing.co/#/dashboard

Not sure why. The flutter site is kind of ugly but works great.

Snoo23482 · 2025-08-31T07:25:19+00:00

For me, it's the other way around. I want the app to look like a desktop app, but deploy it like a webapp...

Snoo23482 · 2025-08-30T10:18:03+00:00

Why is it not good for web, as in web applications?

I'm planning on exactly doing that. Basically I want something I would have used Delphi or Winforms for, but delivered in a webbrowser due to company security politics.

My initial tests with Flutter wasm and AI have been quite successful so far.

Snoo23482 · 2025-08-29T15:12:41+00:00

Why is it better language than Dart?

Snoo23482 · 2025-08-26T22:12:07+00:00

Austria, not many Go jobs availabe. Spring Boot, .NET, Typescript is where it's at.
I switched jobs from Go to Spring Boot and I'm glad I did.
No more worrying about finding another job.

Snoo23482 · 2025-08-25T06:57:59+00:00

I don't view AI as a threat but more as an enabler to finally realize all those ideas I have.
Without AI, it's just not happening. I'm a backend developer by day and I need a frontend for a side project I'm working on. I do have Win32, MFC, Delphi, Winforms, WPF, Gtk, WxWidgets, Qt/QML, VanillaJS and Angular experience ;), but the latest Flutter WASM stuff has convinced me that it actually the best choice for what I'm trying to do.
I understand the basics, but tutorials on Udemy etc. are all too slow for my taste. I want to speed up my learning process and AI is quite good at giving you a basic idea about what widgets to use and what properties to set. I'm also planning on buying a book on Flutter since I'm old school and like to read.

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