hypermachine

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by hypermachine 5y ago
Guess we have a competitor now :)
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by hypermachine 5y ago
How do you deal with features that cannot be modeled as pure functions or are too computationally heavy to rerender on change? For example, user selections, copy and paste, ray tracing. Also I recommend using the Rete.js library for the und
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by hypermachine 5y ago
I have tried many, many website editors. Wix is one of the better ones. Among the big three managed website builders of Wix/Squarespace/Weebly, Wix has the most powerful editor. Sure it's very unintuitive if your are a fronte
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by hypermachine 5y ago
The hardest thing is making things pretty and flexible while maintaining ease of development. Newer UI kits like Flutter are basically architected like game engines. This is a challenge that UI framework designers will have to confront if t
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Setting the cursor position is still available in the Windows API, it is the basis of how most RPA tools work.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We went the other way round and built a VBA interpreter instead.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Join our mailing list :) Give us a try when we launch, you might be pleasantly surprised.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Their biggest mistake was not scaling the VBA/Excel/Access stack beyond desktop and updating it. Where is the WinUI integration for VBA? The product and language was fine but it has been abandoned by Microsoft. It is easy to learn
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by hypermachine 6y ago
I personally believe that Microsoft has lost their way when it comes to low code (which is why we are trying to build a replacement). PowerApps is a lot less powerful than the traditional VBA/Excel/Access combo. However they did m
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We are currently working on a VBA for the web. Stay tuned. https://hypermachine.substack.com
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by hypermachine 6y ago
They accepted Dendron, conceptually similar. Try again!
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by hypermachine 6y ago
How to use the same low latency tricks as the Tonari mirror in other applications. E.g. cloud gaming, conference calls
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Because in 2021 developer tools are fundamentally not profitable. Jetbrains is the exception, not the norm. Developer tools are loss leaders for large corporation to acquire developer goodwill and mindshare. Previously we sold developer too
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by hypermachine 6y ago
What's your stack? Mostly C++?
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Tech question: do you plug in to the native compositing UI system or do you have your own cross-platform UI compositing code?
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by hypermachine 6y ago
The UI builder and libraries are still heavily WIP. Previously we were focused on making a VBA interpreter. For the HTML-over-wire part we are experimenting with a protobufs-based protocol so the backend runtime can support as many language
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We are actually going the other direction. Currently I am experimenting with making a Blazor/Liveview (HTML over wire) runtime that can support many programming languages. And a GUI builder.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Are you referring to this https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-c/40 or the later versions?
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by hypermachine 6y ago
That's more of a demo and showcase tool rather than a GUI builder. I am specifically looking for the drag and drop type.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We are working on it (starting from the VBA interpreter).
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by hypermachine 6y ago
I am building a UI builder. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532316
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Cloud native VBA. See the earlier comments under my account for context.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We have automatic version control for our platform, give us a try when we launch.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Low code isn't inherently that bad as long as it offers a way to integrate with traditional code. Microsoft Excel is tremendously succesful in this area.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
Fair enough and I agree, but I am looking for examples of UI builders with great UX and flexibility because I am currently building one.
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Ask HN: What is the best UI builder that you have ever used?
19 points by hypermachine 6y ago|21 comments
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by hypermachine 6y ago
> Programming languages are easy to learn From our experience with VBA users, this is only true for non-technical (as in STEM background) users when it comes to languages with a close-to-English syntax together with tightly integrated
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We often get questions about relevance when we mention we are building a VBA interpreter. Most people underestimate how much VBA code there are in production.
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by hypermachine 6y ago
We have been working on getting VB6/VBA to run on the web and in cloud native environments. https://hypermachine.org
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by hypermachine 6y ago
On the other hand Go is doing very well with only minimal OOP features. I think for general purpose languages, a robust and big standard library is more important than any specific feature.

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