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A comment on Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by pjmlp on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:32AM (#16176586)
Gtk+ is quite basic compared to RAD UI tooling, even today I wouldn't pick Glade over VB 6 or Delphi.

Qt always had a nice UI designer, with layout managers for responsive UIs, no need for imperative code to build out an interface.

Since version 5 they have QML, a JavaScript like declarative language, quite similar to J3 the first version of JavaFX.

Usually imperative UI code tends to be a thing only among developers that dislike RAD tooling, or game devs using immediate mode UIs.

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by protomikron on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:58AM (#16177494)
> Usually imperative UI code tends to be a thing only among developers that dislike RAD tooling, or game devs using immediate mode UIs.

Actually I think that most game UIs (the menus, settings, inventories - not the actual game) are done quite well - maybe immediate mode GUIs have a place outside of gamedev?

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