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GUI frameworks have always been OOP-based because everybody was copying Xerox Parc. But even the most successful were not always easy to use (composition and co
by willtim 8y ago
GUI frameworks have always been OOP-based because everybody was copying Xerox Parc. But even the most successful were not always easy to use (composition and control-flow/concurrency being particularly awkward). Modern GUIs are all based on HTML/CSS these days anyway and certainly not always OOP, as demonstrated by frameworks such as react.
- discreteevent 8y agoI think that is a bit like saying Xerox parc guis were all pixels which certainly isn't oop. Modern guis are mostly OO code that targets the Dom or generates HTML on the server
- pjmlp 8y agoThose modern GUI based on HTML/CSS don't work at all without JavaScript. Prototype inheritance is also OOP.