Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by CoolGuySteve on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:20AM
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And here I am just wishing for table cells and list views on the web that have functional mouse selection.
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by nwienert on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:15AM
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I’m launching this as part of an app platform soon-ish. If you’d like to beta test get in touch. Virtual tables and lists, with keyboard and shift/command selection modifiers, click and drag to select, edge scrolling, sorting, etc. All with a couple lines of code!
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by sp332 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:15AM
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Not sure if this is what you meant, but try holding the Ctrl key while selecting.
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by muxator on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:42PM
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Did you had a look at Qt? It can do best of both worlds
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by ScottFree on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:33PM
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I'm having a hard time finding a good, comprehensive comparison between Qt and Electron. My current understanding (which is probably wrong) is that Qt isn't much smaller than Electron itself and I would need to use C++. The animations do not look simple or easy to understand at all, but that's just a first glance.
QtQuick, at first glance, is weird. It uses JS and the animation transitions look pretty close to css transitions.
I guess what I'm looking for here is: how is it a clear win over electron other than just raw speed?
Maybe I'll make a non-simple app in both electron and QtQuick and see how they compare in terms of ease of development, development speed, app size, ram usage and "speed".
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
by pknopf on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:30PM
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You don't need C++ with QML.
https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet
I used it at work on my embedded devices.
https://medxchange.com/4klear-all-in-one-camera-recorder/
I highly recommend it. PS: I'm the author.
It lets web devs use languages other than JS on the frontend. That's primarily why I'm excited about it.
As for why electron, the only real explanation I've heard from people that makes sense is the ease with which you can put together custom UI controls and style them. All of the desktop UI systems are great at the simple things, like putting default OS controls in an app, but complex things like creating custom controls, animations and complex styling appear extremely difficult to accomplish. At least, that's the way it seems to me.