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Re:The rise of React on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:32PM (#23372935)
There are alternatives to React indeed, but those you mentioned are conceptually very different.
Re:Welcome to C# 9.0 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:28PM (#23250118)
Because Scala takes mind-boggingly long to compile. Because Scala has so many features that anything has at least 3 different ways to implement it. Because it’s very easy to write unreadable code in scala, not so much in C#. Because Scala uses JVM, while C# has access to .NET (yes this is an advantage for many developers).
Re:In Praise of AutoHotKey on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:34AM (#23163789)
Which is something I don't understand, just separate the signal and give me a digital output from the monitor, why are monitors doing digital analog conversion for audio too, all of a sudden?
You just matched all engineers to a pattern you observed.
It's not aiming for 100% compatibility to web standards. More like a familiar way to create GUIs. Electron is a very up to date browser instance, and that is both its strength and weakness.