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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by atlasduo on Thursday March 28, 2024 @05:52AM (#39849259)
It is the same approach as declarative UI programming like SwiftUI or QML, but with an extra GUI abstraction on top of it. An artifact of this GUI-driven development process (like Xcode or Glade) is still a file with some declarative markup (sometimes even human-readable).
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by treprinum on Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:35AM (#39850475)
There is a big qualitative jump when one can arrange and play with UI without writing a single line of code, even if the user's decisions about component placement are recorded in a declarative file.
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Re:Writing Gnome Apps with Swift by steve1977 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:26PM (#39853745)
> An artifact of this GUI-driven development process (like Xcode or Glade) is still a file with some declarative markup

Not really in the case of Cocoa's Interface Builder (nib/xib files). There the artifact is basically a marshalled object tree of the actual UI objects, not declarative markup.

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