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The outlined problem in the article has all of the requirements of a full GUI toolkit, yet the only GUI toolkit looked at is discarded as being too much. The p
by panzagl 9y ago
The outlined problem in the article has all of the requirements of a full GUI toolkit, yet the only GUI toolkit looked at is discarded as being too much. The proposed alternative is to recreate XUL in JSON. I weep for our industry.
- vram22 9y agoYes, I too read the article, and it came across to me as dismissing many GUI development options for one single reason or another, maybe without checking to see if there were any solutions or workarounds to the issues of each of them. Might be a perfectionist point of view.
- prlin 9y agoWhat are other suggestions? (I haven't done any searching but it sounds like you had some in mind.)
- panzagl 9y agoNot an OCaml dev- it looks like wxwidgets has bindings, which is what I'd use for 'minimal'. But a text editor with the type of features he wants is not minimal.