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everything went down when we allow web technologies be part of the desktop, everything electron or any other incarnation is an abomination
Amen. I miss actual desktop applications
I have the feeling, that this age will come back in one way or the other (and I have the feeling Rust and Webassembly will be involved ;))
I can understand it tho. What other GUI toolkits have a markup language like HTML? It's so easy compared to having 50 billion different widgets, adding stuff through code is so verbose..
Plenty of them?
https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/overview_xrc.html
Okay but do you expect me to actually know anything about what I'm saying?
(Jokes aside my bad TIL thanks)
The real benefit with Electron is the whole write-once-run-everywhere goal that Java was supposed to originally achieve, combined with super fast prototyping.
Maybe one day we'll get a JIT/AOT version of HTML.