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It isn't really that important to have a declarative UI, making the UI is rarely the time consuming or difficult part of making a program. An extra markup lan
by CyberDildonics 2y ago
It isn't really that important to have a declarative UI, making the UI is rarely the time consuming or difficult part of making a program. An extra markup language for a UI adds bloat and ambiguity. Now you're learning a different ad hoc language and trying to get around its quirks just to be able to feed in data that could have been done directly with functions.
- jamwil 2y agoGosh I feel like making the UI is always time consuming, but that might just be because I find it repetitive and boring, and thus perceive the work as taking longer. I could die a happy man never imperatively constructing nested QBoxLayouts again.
- CyberDildonics 2y agoIs that because it's actually difficult or because iterations take a long time from obnoxious compilation times?
- jamwil 2y agoEh Qt isn’t really difficult, just not my idea of fun. I use the python bindings so compilation time isn’t a thing.
- CyberDildonics 2y agoEh gosh if you're using PyQt already, why would a different markup language to create the GUI help? Are you even using QML? That is the context of this thread.
- jamwil 2y agoI was only responding to the general statement that making the UI is not the time consuming part of app development.