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Form designers produce their own issues like compatibility between versions, poor interactions with source control and poor responsiveness. I don't see an issu

by flukus 9y ago

Form designers produce their own issues like compatibility between versions, poor interactions with source control and poor responsiveness. I don't see an issue with creating UI's in code, with a decent API like Qt and Gtk provide it's quite straightforward. Why should UI code be treated differently to other code?

pjmlp 9y ago
Because of productivity, and UI/UX workflows while prototyping. Why should I spend 30 coding something away that is doable in a few seconds with a couple of mouse clicks? It is not good to generalize, but most coders I have meant without any sense of UI design never used graphical tooling for doing UIs.
- flukus 9y ago
  > Why should I spend 30 coding something away that is doable in a few seconds with a couple of mouse clicks? Because maintainability is more important than instant gratification. If you can do both then great, but IME visual designers are a maintenance headache.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    I have exactly the opposite experience regarding visual designers versus code. Changing a couple of properties in layout files is more maintainable than hundreds of code lines just to change a visual effect.
    - dahauns 9y ago
      >Changing [..] hundreds of code lines just to change a visual effect. If you need to do that, your codebase has a serious problem.
      - pjmlp 9y ago
        Basic example, WPF storyboard animation defined in Microsoft Blend versus coding the full animation by hand in C#.