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I view the rise of React and especially Electron as the failure of things like GTK, Qt, and e.g. Swing to make a useable cross-platform GUI toolkit that isn't a

I view the rise of React and especially Electron as the failure of things like GTK, Qt, and e.g. Swing to make a useable cross-platform GUI toolkit that isn't a total nightmare to work with / compile / debug / install / package...it's literally easier to ship [most of] an entire web browser instead. That's insane to me.

FpUser 3y ago
>"/ compile / debug / install / package" Replace "compile" with transpile, "install" with deploy that are the same things anyways and it sounds like most projects done by web developers. >"That's insane to me" Congrats
selfmodruntime 3y ago
I said this before, but here it goes. People always wished for the *one stack that would work the same 99% of the time for all available platforms. Now that it's here, they hate it. Yes, Electron is bad, but there are alternatives in progress. Layouting with HTML and CSS is here to stay. It's like git, the best of all the worst tools to get the job done.
- flexagoon 3y ago
  Well, there's also Flutter
  - Conscat 3y ago
    Flutter isn't acceptable for Apple platforms, especially iOS. It technically exists, but barely works.
  - selfmodruntime 3y ago
    As someone who relies on accessibility, flutter is a nightmare.