I place a lot of the blame for this stagnation followed by backward progress on the fact that a decent number of developers actually have a kind of quiet or even subconscious contempt for ease of use and RAD tools. "Real men" code by hand in a text editor. RAD tools are for wimps. As a result few developers work on them or use them.
It's sad because what developers are really doing here is wasting tons and tons of time. If we had really awesome modern and especially cross platform RAD tools the time savings would be enormous. We could spend that time working on more interesting stuff than wiring up controls to events.
It's sad because what developers are really doing here is wasting tons and tons of time. If we had really awesome modern and especially cross platform RAD tools the time savings would be enormous. We could spend that time working on more interesting stuff than wiring up controls to events.