Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by bryanphe on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:28PM
(#19751115)
Great list and summary! So often these concerns get conflated.
We're working on a framework that address 1, 2, 2.1, 3, and 3.1 - Revery [0] - a React-like framework that compiles to native code, built with ReasonML [1]. I believe that the React pure-functional model of UI-as-a-function-of-state is such a powerful paradigm, and not leveraged on native today - ReasonML is a perfect fit for that.
Bullet point 4 is a non-goal for Revery, but our sister project, Brisk [2] is built on platform widgets.
I'd personally also add a couple of dev experience bullet points or ideas to the "holy grail":
6) Fast / instant compilation time
7) Hot-reload (see changes to the app instantly)
We're not there yet, but we hope we could also get to the point of including 6/7 - essentially bringing some of the great aspects of React/Redux to desktop application development, with native code.
We're working on a framework that address 1, 2, 2.1, 3, and 3.1 - Revery [0] - a React-like framework that compiles to native code, built with ReasonML [1]. I believe that the React pure-functional model of UI-as-a-function-of-state is such a powerful paradigm, and not leveraged on native today - ReasonML is a perfect fit for that.
Bullet point 4 is a non-goal for Revery, but our sister project, Brisk [2] is built on platform widgets.
I'd personally also add a couple of dev experience bullet points or ideas to the "holy grail":
6) Fast / instant compilation time
7) Hot-reload (see changes to the app instantly)
We're not there yet, but we hope we could also get to the point of including 6/7 - essentially bringing some of the great aspects of React/Redux to desktop application development, with native code.
- [0] Revery: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
- [1] ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/
- [2] Brisk: https://github.com/briskml/brisk