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> And were we are, yet to have a Web UI designer that can match Blend, Qt Creator, Netbeans Matisse, Scene Builder, Glade, Delphi, C++ Builder,.... Huh, my exp

> And were we are, yet to have a Web UI designer that can match Blend, Qt Creator, Netbeans Matisse, Scene Builder, Glade, Delphi, C++ Builder,.... Huh, my experience was all those things are terrible (spent some time with Qt and researching Glade, also inherited a Delphi codebase full of spaghetti code at one point). Visual UI tools are great for prototyping, awful for maintainable code. Anyone I know who's spent any time with them ends up wanting to go back to the code. There certainly are good Web UI designers [1], it just seems no-one wants them. There are successful visual Web UI prototyping tools tho. [1] http://macaw.co/ http://macaw.co/

pjmlp 9y ago
Those tools are wonderful and make my life on native frontend projects enjoyable, versus the pain having to deal with of Web design, which I happen to have experience since the early days (first coded web apps were C based cgis in 1997). Trying to manually hack GUI generated code is an anti-pattern. One has to leave the code generated by the tools to the tools, everything else should live in other code files. Sadly I never heard of Macaw, specially on the enterprise circles I move on, in any case they seem to be gone now.