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I thought you meant native desktop apps, not web apps. I remember when ExtJS was positioned in the late 2000s to mimik rich desktop UIs and I think there are s

by dakna 6y ago

I thought you meant native desktop apps, not web apps. I remember when ExtJS was positioned in the late 2000s to mimik rich desktop UIs and I think there are still lots of component based frameworks to use and pay for, if Bootstrap doesn't cut it. The prices are steep though.

tabtab 6y ago
As far as developer productivity, the desktop-oriented IDE's were indeed better. Yes, you had less choice, but that didn't matter much if tried to think like a plumber instead of Picasso. The problem was that deployment and installation was a pain. Microsoft actually improved that for its products, but I believe if we had a stateful GUI markup standard, we could have very similar tools without desktop installs (other than installing a GUI browser). Oracle Forms kind of worked like this (mostly before Java era), although its GUI control language was proprietary and not XML. Oracle Forms had its warts, but was a good proof concept for the GUI browser. Developers got a lot of work done under it.