Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?

Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by sillysaurusx on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:59AM (#34218547)

Can confirm. I love winforms. Convinced that even the most hardcore Unix devs are missing out on the sheer joy of being able to double-click on a form you just dropped into an editor and seeing it automatically add an event handler for the common case of whatever type of UI component it is. (Buttons are onclick, inputs are ontextchange, etc.)

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by sorenjan on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:12AM (#34218699)

I think QTCreator provides a similar experience, but I haven't used it in years and might be wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by pferde on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:15AM (#34218741)

Glade did that decades ago for GTK+ apps too. A WYSIWYG UI editor which prepared all the UI boilerplate code for you automatically.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by AdamKlob on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:12AM (#34218705)

There are RAD IDEs for popular Unix frameworks like Qt or Gnome and probabyly much more I haven't heard about.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by bena on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:38AM (#34219915)

XAML in Visual Studio is similar. You can put in the call to the handler, then "Go To Definition..." and it will create the handler for you.

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