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I don’t want to sound too grumpy and all; but it’s probably a fifth n-body project in wasm I see here on Hacker News. On the other hand the big elephant in the
by heavenlyblue 8y ago
I don’t want to sound too grumpy and all; but it’s probably a fifth n-body project in wasm I see here on Hacker News. On the other hand the big elephant in the room is the UI on the web.
Why is noone doing it? I’ve only seen a single half-baked UI toolkit for wasm+canvas (or however you call the combination of 3d and wasm).
I understand there are ways to build interfaces on the web, but it seems a good UI toolkit is something a lot of startups would find incredibly exciting in the long run.
- KenanSulayman 8y agoBecause people build these projects in their spare time. Just like you have observed there's no perceived business value to managers yet in WebAssembly etc. for companies yet that aren't directly involved with 3D (like AutoCAD Web, game engines, ...) or other visual rendering (like PDFKit), so most of the things that are being created are just cognitively stimulating for the developers creating them, and that's not necessarily creating UIs. Building things like this physics engine is like playing Lego for adults. When you create UI, people always have opinions and you suddenly need to justify why things work differently than what they think is how things should work. That's exhausting. You could make a startup out of it..
- krapp 8y agoWait for the spec to mature a bit more, and for better tooling to emerge, and even then chances are the solution will be a port of QT.