GUI development with Rust and GTK 4

Re:GUI development with Rust and GTK 4 by thechao on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:20AM (#35700885)

I really like XML a lot; I've gotten large numbers of people to use XML & XSLT, where I work. XML is dated, and it is gross. Here's the two things the XML ecosystem nailed, which tie me to it:

1. A dedicated tree-based transformation language (XSL); and,

2. Axis-queries (Xpath).

If I could Xpath all-the-things, I'd be a happier human. Although, I also feel like I should be able to SQL all-the-things, too. Maybe I'm just a sucker for structured-data query-languages?

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Re:GUI development with Rust and GTK 4 by wellanyway on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:15PM (#35702520)

XSLT is garbage tho.

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Re:GUI development with Rust and GTK 4 by thechao on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:23PM (#35704568)

XSLT the syntax leaves a bit to be desired. There's also a number of highly questionable default behaviors that are really unfortunate. OTOH, the concept of a term-rewriting tree-matching language is pretty great.

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Re:GUI development with Rust and GTK 4 by regularfry on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:53PM (#35743917)

Also namespaces. When you need them, you really need them.

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