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You expected highly capable, generic GUI toolkits to show parity with a development environment that has specifically targetted text above all else (though with
by PaulDavisThe1st 5mo ago
You expected highly capable, generic GUI toolkits to show parity with a development environment that has specifically targetted text above all else (though with lots of other stuff and great depth too) for decades?
Even in an era of PWAs and highly reactive UIs, the web is still fundamentally a document presentation mechanism. No generic GUI toolkit fits that description (even if they can be coerced into being one).
- danielvaughn 5mo agoGiven how much shit the web gets from native developers, yeah kinda? They make it seem like it's light years ahead of the web, often arrogantly so.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5mo agoFor trees of interacting widgets, it is. For text presentation, not so much.