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> Someone should make a framework like Electron or Tauri or WebKit that works like CGI. Don't need to use TypeScript or Rust or whatever. Just push between back
by hnlmorg 4y ago
> Someone should make a framework like Electron or Tauri or WebKit that works like CGI. Don't need to use TypeScript or Rust or whatever. Just push between backend and frontend over a file stream.
I’d argue that already exists in the form of your $SHELL.
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- torstenvl 4y agoIf you know a shell that renders HTML and JS as a local graphical UI, I'd be interested to know what it is! Though I'm not sure requiring end users to install such a niche thing (assuming it exists) is a great distribution strategy.
- hnlmorg 4y agoYou can get graphical UIs in shells. Albeit they’re usually TUIs. But there’s nothing stopping someone from creating a more ”attractive” UI using sixel or even embedding web components via proprietary ANSI escape sequences. Personally though, I don’t think HTML and JavaScript is a particularly nice abstraction for writing UIs. But each to their own