Considering there are things you can do with web apps now that you couldn't do at all in 1996, I'd say for some use cases web development is now "infinitely" faster.
Sure you could. You could have built the web and everything you needed and then written your app :)
"Development is faster" presumably means "relative to what people are trying to do". That's the sense in which the OP uses it, because he's talking about development going faster per project. The concept is problematic since what projects consist of has changed as much as everything else has.
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Considering there are things you can do with web apps now that you couldn't do at all in 1996, I'd say for some use cases web development is now "infinitely" faster.
Sure you could. You could have built the web and everything you needed and then written your app :)
"Development is faster" presumably means "relative to what people are trying to do". That's the sense in which the OP uses it, because he's talking about development going faster per project. The concept is problematic since what projects consist of has changed as much as everything else has.