As a web developer, you are used to working in a stateless environment forced by the need to be scalable. But even when you are not implementing the next Amazon-like application, you are still presented with the same general purpose tools. It is common practice to implement stateful web applications as it dramatically simplifies implementation and reduces security issues. However, working with pages still implies some kind of stateless implementation that presents developers with non-trivial tasks.
Desktop developers, on the other hand, are provided with a stateful environment which utilizes the state to simplify development tasks. They are presented with a full object model allowing them to interact with the UI elements in a much more intuitive way. They are provided with a richer data binding mechanism which simplifies their development tasks.
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