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Because there are barely any dedicated desktop software developers and there are a million web developers.

Now if developer tooling wasn't trash, the transition from one to the other wouldn't be a giant hurdle. But, it is trash, so, we are where we are.

For example I work as an iOS developer but I've done desktop (macOS) software and prefer it. You know how many job postings there are for macOS devs? Zero.



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