[cmyr]

I’m not dismissive of embedded, it’s just a totally different problem set and is not the focus of this article. This article is about the pain points of integrating with the current major desktop platforms, period.

I agree we’re in a funny local minima. I agree there’s room for experimentation. But also… for a general purpose GUI toolkit, text editing is not optional. Modal windows (alerts, file open/save, as well as just drop-down/selection lists) are really not optional.

I’m also not arguing that everyone needs to do all these things from scratch. Very few people should be trying to reimplement IME. But you do need to support IME, or you are only making a toy.