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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by airstrike on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:05AM (#18734140)
My 2 cents is that tk apps look ugly AF as you mentioned and that GUI programming is a hard and thankless job... so people want to skirt around it by leveraging CSS which they already know.

Also if it's not built in JS, it's not cool these days

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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by ergothus on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:19AM (#18734261)
> Also if it's not built in JS, it's not cool these days

To me, it feels like if you want to be cool these days, you look down on JS/JS devs.

JS has plenty of issues, but it's undeniably successful - isn't it more beneficial to either improve the problems or figure out why it continues to be successful despite them and adapt that in your language of choice rather than dismiss the success as being "cool"?

I've developed in a few languages, with JS being the latest, and while I do in fact enjoy it (mostly), it's not because I'm cool. I'm almost never cool, and being a JS dev involves people telling me that remains the case in tech forums regularly.

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All of my bitterness aside, your point about GUI development is completely correct. I've been happy to see CSS slowly taking lessons from desktop GUI layout and hope for more in the future.

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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by kbenson on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:28AM (#18734345)
> To me, it feels like if you want to be cool these days, you look down on JS/JS devs.

The true hipster developer needs to be able to sneer at JavaScript with true derision while also having JavaScript be their go-to language for everything. Holding incompatible views at the same time about mostly inconsequential things is, after all, the true essence of being a hipster...

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