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Don't laugh, but we still have a big software solution based on jQuery Mobile up and running, used daily by hundreds of users on tablets and smartphones, and getting new features every few weeks.

(yes, a successor is planned, but it will be a huge amount of work)

I kind of miss the days where building a mobile app was just plopping giant widgets on a screen, and we didn't need giant figma files and design languages.

I don't, however, miss dealing with the 300ms click delay.

What bothers me more is that those giant Figma files don't have anything special about the design anymore. Very often they're just using some uncanny-valley version of Material Design. Companies spend a lot of time reinventing almost the exact same wheel for almost no benefit at all. So much wasted potential.

Take me back