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At this rate programming languages will reinvent GUI builders from Delphi/Lazarus in 2050

• dagw 3y ago
  I still find it quite sad that the pinnacle of GUI programming tools was reached over 20 years ago, when Delphi 6 was released, and we've been going more or less downhill ever since.
  • afavour 3y ago
    I see it differently: UI needs have gotten more complex. Like how we used to have web sites that said "best viewed in 800x600 in Netscape Navigator" we rarely design one size fits all UIs any more like we did in Delphi.
    • SaintSeiya 3y ago
      There's nothing in "modern" UI that cannot be done with Lazarus GUI Builder: Dynamic layouts? check, anchors? check, flexbox? check, custom components? check nested hierarchies of elements? HIDPI? check Vector Graphics? check Multiresolution? check and so on. All of them compiled to native (and looking native) on every platform under the sun. As said before, GUI design peaked in the 90's
      • zacmps 3y ago
        Does that extend to internationalisation or accessibility? (Real questions, Lazarus was before my time)
  • nu11ptr 3y ago
    Honestly, all the momentum went to web UIs...desktop UI R&D then just died more or less.
  • oblio 3y ago
    Technically the pinnacle was around 2010. Guess what happened around that time? Firstly, the web won. Secondly, mobile cemented the demise of the desktop. Especially since mobile is horribly anti-crossplatform GUI toolkit, especially against open source toolkits.