The web as a GUI toolkit

Re:The web as a GUI toolkit by zelcon on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:20PM (#22323929)

Qt, Flutter, JavaFX, hell even Swing is infinitely better than any JS framework. Easier to get started with. Easier to ship. Easier to maintain. Easier to do actual, you know, computer stuff with because you can do actual I/O and talk to the OS. It's not even in the same solar system as JS, from either the user's or the developer's perspective.

The state of the art in web is React which is an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Win32's UI loop.

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Re:The web as a GUI toolkit by Aperocky on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:34PM (#22323987)

Could have been, but I’m happy to develop in js and upload it so anybody could just visit the site and run. Build till worldwide is infinitely faster. Especially for smaller projects. e.g

http://aperocky.com/prehistoric

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Re:The web as a GUI toolkit by zelcon on Friday February 14, 2020 @12:05AM (#22324092)

This is cool but it would have been easier to build in Java or Dart or C++.

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Re:The web as a GUI toolkit by hombre_fatal on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:14AM (#22324346)

Meanwhile, I don't think any of the non-web client platforms can compete with how nice it is to develop web clients, from React to Elm to trivial async-everything + async/await + the simple Promise and concurrency management. Just to give you another viewpoint.

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