Most of your electronic devices work with embedded software. Production lines, transport gates, cranes, computer hardware, ships, planes, rockets, cars, e-bikes, smart lights...

There is also scientific programming, that feeds research and analysis. Weather reports? Statistics, etc.

And there is gaming.

Devops, infrastructure? Databases? Tools for artists? Most of those aren't web. And yes I've heard of Figma.

There are probably tens of categories I'm missing.

Web is still bigger probably, but I have a problem with the saying "practically all other development is web".

And you just deduct that from the name? Was .NET created with a focus on web? It seems to me like a generic application framework.

ASP.NET is the web part, no?

I didn’t deduce it from the name. I deduced it from over a decade experience working primarily with .Net.

Since I can’t presume the reader has equivalent experience, especially in HN, pointing to the name, which should be a good signifier of what something does (to be fair, MS really, really sucks at naming), is a good shorthand.

The real reason .Net isn’t good for embedded devices is because MS didn’t develop it for embedded devices. They’ve only added low level memory management in the past few years.

Until recently you couldn’t even create a fully statically compiled executable.

> practically all

Define “practically all”. I would accept “clear majority”.

But practically all? Nah. I mean the hot new areas for funding right now are AI and robotics neither of which are web!

I’m coming up on 20 years professional experience. Exactly none of it has been mobile or web! The programming field is so much bigger than HN likes to pretend.

The majority of software is probably Excel macros.

This probably isn't true but I want to read a super geeky dark sci-fi novel that explores this topic.

It's not obvious to me that it isn't true. The number of excel spreadsheets world-wide probably vastly outnumbers the number of software projects.

Excel spreadsheets with macros on the other hand aren't THAT many, no? :)

>I mean the hot new areas for funding right now are AI and robotics

Most developers are not in such startups. There is a lot of boring software out there which is a website. Even for AI, the first company that comes to mind OpenAI is known for ChatGPT, a web product. Most of the AI companies are building web products.

That is software with a web interface. Only a small part of OpenAI's work deals with web related things.

how dare you, i summon 10 js engineers from openai to downvote you (they have 6 only)

I won't fear them teaming up with their FastAPI Python team.

They are serious parts of chatgpt experience. But still not core of the work.

Sure isn’t.

> practically all other development is web

This is a pretty ignorant take.