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When DOM access comes, all my js will hit the round file.
by dundercoder 9y ago
When DOM access comes, all my js will hit the round file.
- api 9y agoI dunno... React and React Native are nice. I would prefer to use those for UI but do everything else in C++14 or some other real language. The web stuff could just be the view.
- felipellrocha 9y agoSure. But it would be nice to be able to cheese between go and python for the UI, as well.
- api 9y agoI always cheese my UI. Mobile is the foot rub.
- ashark 9y agoAs much as I dislike JS, my experiences with React Native (JS but largely native UI elements) and Electron (JS with some native elements, but largely HTML+CSS) has convinced me that that HTML+CSS is my real (performance and battery life) enemy, with JS a significant but distant second. I look forward to better UI kits that just draw to a Canvas-like surface or something, ideally without needing an HTML+CSS engine at all. I'm not thrilled with that because I really like the old-school lightly-styled-HTML web, but I have to admit it's really really bad at "app" style layouts and interactivity, so if we must do that with the web (and apparently we must) it's gotta go, or it's gonna continue to suck.
- TheAceOfHearts 9y agoWhat do you consider a better alternative? A lot of people love to hate on HTM+CSS, but it's actually fairly powerful. I've been trying out a lot of native UI toolkits, and they're all as quirky and confusing as web tech. I'd agree that there's tons of room for improvement, but any UI tookit will need to make certain tradeoffs and deal with complex layouts and compositions. Flexbox and grid help a lot with app-style layout.