Re:WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web
by danielvaughn on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:00AM
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I used UIKit (iOS) for a couple of years back in 2015/2016. It was an interesting experience, I did enjoy laying out the architecture of my app visually, then dipping into code for the behavior and business logic.
Re:WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web
by lelanthran on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:56AM
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> I used UIKit (iOS) for a couple of years back in 2015/2016. It was an interesting experience, I did enjoy laying out the architecture of my app visually, then dipping into code for the behavior and business logic.
I think you can expand your view on what is technically possible by simply downloading Lazarus and creating a simply application with it. Follow a tutorial.
Then compare that experience with mangling react or similar to get what you want using purely an IDE to build everything.
Re:WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web
by danielvaughn on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:04AM
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I’ll check it out, thanks. I remember doing a survey of lots of GUI tools a couple of years back (GTK, QT, etc). I don’t think I ever came across Lazarus but if it’s still available for download I’m interested to see what it can do.
I remember a time when almost all business apps were written in a drag-n-drop environment.
There's a reason that they dominated so definitively, for so long.
In fact, a big reason they're not around anymore is because the vendors forcefully killed them off.
The web as a replacement for app development is a really poor substitute, but anyone who started coding after 2004 won't know this, as it's all they've ever seen.
In short, parent comment is so off-base it might as well come from an alternate reality in which VB, MS-Access, Delphi and C++ builder did not exist.