Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
by meredydd on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:43PM
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Man, I'm late posting this, but this is exactly what we're building with Anvil - https://anvil.works
> Superior scripting language
We use Python - on the client and on the server (with rich RPC between the two).
> Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits
The biggest such idea is that most layouts should be done visually - Visual Basic had this right, and we've been moving backwards ever since. (The web has three, usually four intermediate representations you have to think through to edit your appearance: Template (->substitution->) HTML (->parsing->) DOM (->CSS render->) visual layout)
> Superior scripting language
We use Python - on the client and on the server (with rich RPC between the two).
> Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits
The biggest such idea is that most layouts should be done visually - Visual Basic had this right, and we've been moving backwards ever since. (The web has three, usually four intermediate representations you have to think through to edit your appearance: Template (->substitution->) HTML (->parsing->) DOM (->CSS render->) visual layout)