The submission highlights how WebForms, which was cutting edge twenty years ago, relied on a collection of design choices intended to make web programming feel like desktop development. While older web frameworks attempted to mimic desktop environments, contemporary software often uses tools like Electron, which results in desktop programming feeling like web programming.
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by in CodeSOD on 2026-10-28We still get a fair bit of old school ASP .Net webforms code, which was cutting edge about twenty years ago, but remains a collection of bad choices that tried to make web programming feel like desktop programming. As an aside, what a reversed world we live in today, where everyone uses Electron and our desktop programming feels like web programming.
In any case, Thomas sends us some pretty ugly webforms code.
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