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Sure, the web will one day die — and it will certainly change a lot before that day! But even so, would you stake a current native UI toolkit to last longer, a

Sure, the web will one day die — and it will certainly change a lot before that day! But even so, would you stake a current native UI toolkit to last longer, and provide more value, before that day? There are good reasons to write truly native UI. Performance is very persuasive. Longevity, perhaps less so.

adastra22 4y ago
I'll wager the Win32 gui api will outlast your choice of web stack.
- rat9988 4y ago
  Do the other native frameworks in the other OS have the same longetivity story?
  - adastra22 4y ago
    X11 does.
mattgreenrocks 4y ago
The conceptual foundations of something like this are extremely important. If you stake the basic ideas of the framework on the DOM, then DOM details will become implementation details which will become details that clients will depend on. And you'll have just re-written React but with even more layers. It needs to be thought about in terms of first principles, ala SICP. There are basic primitives to be defined that are the "ground," and then it is built up from there.