Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

Posted Sep 8, 2021 11:42 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows by marcH
Parent article: Emacs discusses web-based development workflows

> > I'm sorry, I don't understand how this is a problem somehow unique to (or particularly exacerbated by) email? A notification is a notification is a notification,

> The problem with pure email "workflows" is the notification is the data and the data is the notification.

Well, yeah, but I thought we weren't talking about "pure email workflows" -- As opposed to using email for notifications by external services. (vs sms, special snowflake per-application mechanisms, manual polling, a colleague throwing something at you, etc)

Even debbugs' and emacs' email-based bug trackers are centralized and don't rely on the client to maintain any state.