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there's a million gui frameworks under the sun and i still haven't found one that feels like what everyone has been asking for: good dx, cross platform, fast,
by trueno 2mo ago
there's a million gui frameworks under the sun and i still haven't found one that feels like what everyone has been asking for:
good dx, cross platform, fast, not ugly.
pick i dunno 2 or 3.
tui's get to check 2 or 3 of these just like any other gui library. somehow there still isn't a silver bullet here.
now i personally don't build tuis but guake style dropdown simple command and i have some other thing someone made open immediately running in ghostty? hell yea. with that said yes there are some stupid tuis out there that are anything but simple.
- singpolyma3 2mo agoExcept web. Which inexplicably got all of these when no one was looking
- TylerE 2mo agoNot fast.
- psychoslave 2mo agoThat depends what is build and how. Granted that a modern web browser is indeed an order of magnitude heavier than an OS, once that ticket is paid anyway, one can built very far, without relying on any additional bloat that contemporary web frameworks puts on top of it. There is not that much more data to send though HTTPS to bring a far more convenient UX than what raw text bespoke tweaks can offer over SSH.
- singpolyma3 2mo agoHow so? You can make slow things with it of course but it's not inherent.
- zbentley 2mo agoNot “not ugly” either. The flexibility is too high and standardization of UX is too low. Technically, we’re missing adoption of default standard toolkits like swing or GTK, and politically a11y/compliance checkers are a far cry from something like the HIG of old.
- pjmlp 2mo agoFast and good DX, not really, unless we are comparing it to command line tools, instead of 4 GL and RAD tools from the 1990's. Especially when I keep bumping into Electron apps.