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I'm scared away from HTML/Electron as it seems (perhaps I'm wrong) that means I am going to have to also use Photoshop (which I'm particularly bad at) and desig

I'm scared away from HTML/Electron as it seems (perhaps I'm wrong) that means I am going to have to also use Photoshop (which I'm particularly bad at) and design literally every bit of the UI from scratch while what I want is a set of classic widgets to layout on a form quickly (the way I do in VisualStudio and Qt Designer). I have experience of using HTML, CSS and vanilla JS to make classic web pages and I can't even imagine how to html/css-code something that is going to look and work like a reasonably complex desktop application. Also as @mherrmann has once mentioned "Do you know how JavaScript sorts numbers? Alphabetically. ’nuff said.". At least but not at last Electron apps are so slow to start and so hardware-hungry I actually doubt it is going to become a truly mainstream platform for desktop applications. BTW the technology doesn't look flawed any more (arguably it is less flawed) than WinForms is. If only Trolltech would consider developing a WinForms-style (or call it Delphi-style) RAD studio (that would provide click-to-code experience, a visual BackgroundWorker component etc and let you customize everything visually instead of only doing the actual form design job like Qt Designer) a worthy investment PyQt5 apps development could be made a breeze.

21 8y ago
> At least but not at last Electron apps are so slow to start and so hardware-hungry I actually doubt it is going to become a truly mainstream platform for desktop applications Nobody is going to write a Photoshop or a music production software in Electron. You need C++ for that kind of stuff. Neither PyQt or WinForms cuts it. Apps like that use custom GUIs built directly over OpenGL/Direct3D. But I have a feeling your app is no Photoshop either.
- qwerty456127 8y ago
  > Nobody is going to write a Photoshop See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380
tluyben2 8y ago
> means I am going to have to also use Photoshop (which I'm particularly bad at) and design literally every bit of the UI from scratch while what I want is a set of classic widgets to layout on a form quickly Exactly. What is the react/vue/html/css alternative for this? Because when I look around, I find ways of doing it but people generally do not seem to use them so they end up being abandoned. There is no reason why it cannot be simularly easy, but, as far as I see, people using these technologies like to keep things complex for the design-challenged among us.

21 8y ago

> At least but not at last Electron apps are so slow to start and so hardware-hungry I actually doubt it is going to become a truly mainstream platform for desktop applications Nobody is going to write a Photoshop or a music production software in Electron. You need C++ for that kind of stuff. Neither PyQt or WinForms cuts it. Apps like that use custom GUIs built directly over OpenGL/Direct3D. But I have a feeling your app is no Photoshop either.

qwerty456127 8y ago
> Nobody is going to write a Photoshop See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380

tluyben2 8y ago

> means I am going to have to also use Photoshop (which I'm particularly bad at) and design literally every bit of the UI from scratch while what I want is a set of classic widgets to layout on a form quickly Exactly. What is the react/vue/html/css alternative for this? Because when I look around, I find ways of doing it but people generally do not seem to use them so they end up being abandoned. There is no reason why it cannot be simularly easy, but, as far as I see, people using these technologies like to keep things complex for the design-challenged among us.