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I've found that , once you build up the right set of components for yourself, you can easily get nice layouts that work on a variety of screens without much wor

by rtpg 9y ago

I've found that , once you build up the right set of components for yourself, you can easily get nice layouts that work on a variety of screens without much work. There sometimes ends up with edge cases, but overall it works well so long as you design things with the tooling on mind. Meanwhile I've struggled to get things looking well with GTK+ or Tcl/tk. Especially when the UI I'm trying to make is dynamic. The tooling has never seemed very condusive to "fit content"-style UIs

3131s 9y ago
> Especially when the UI I'm trying to make is dynamic. That's where I still run into problems with CSS too. However, at some point, and not because I started using flexbox / grid, CSS did click for me and now it's mostly second nature to get the layout that I'm going for. My feeling on this whole topic is that while as a web developer I have often thought "there must be a simpler way", every time I actually start to imagine what that would look like I end up re-imagining something similar to the web stack as it is now. There is a lot of inherent complexity to GUI-based networked client-server applications that need to be responsive, continuously integrated, database-backed, real-time, etc.