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by externalreality
2524 days ago
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I think HTML is bad. I think DOM based development is bad. I really feel that Desktop UI development is much more mature and has much less legacy to compete with when developing a web UI. I think the very near future will be web assembly code that paints a canvas. Mature desktop methods with GUI design tools will be ported to web assembler and retrofit for the web. QT5, imgui, are just the beginning. I think a good exercise would be to open the Full Stack React book again and port the first few running examples to a Qt Quick Controls application and then target webassembler. I am willing to wager that anyone who gives it a real shot will be impressed at the productivity gains -- which generally stem from QML's expressiveness and not having to deal with React's over-complicated design. Not to mention, you'll not waste time because some component you made behaves differently across browsers. You'll also notice a complete lack of the dogma that tends accompany modern JS frameworks and libraries. It also feels good to know that your UI may be a bit more performant that DOM based UI's. |
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I secretly hope this becomes true. I always think back to how nearly everything done on the frontend are essentially hacks to really sex-up a document description language for scientists.
I think it would be really neat if we did end up building UI's in a responsive way like you describe. It would feel more like the right tool for the right job. But that seems so far away when I start to think about what it would take to get there.