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by meredydd 1137 days ago
Oh, yeah - "text in a Git repository" is table stakes for developers. Ditto being open source to avoid lock-in. (Which is why Anvil has both! You can check your code out, edit in VS code, and host locally.) But if you want a visual UI editor, you gotta have the tooling somewhere...

Aside: I get grouchy about the term "low-code", mostly because it's almost always a lie (you're going to need the code, and most "low-code" systems just hide how much that's going to hurt - which is why we put the code front and centre), and it causes people to lump Anvil in with, eg, Retool rather than, eg, Pynecone/Viola/Beeware...but this is definitely getting off topic ;)

Interested to hear how your scale-up/B2C users deal with the round-trip delays - I guess that's less of a deal with websites than interactive apps? (Should probably have grabbed you at PyCon to ask, but we were both pinned down pretty hard! I did manage to wave at you though, I think...)

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Yeah Pycon was busy but next time :)

Will be improved in the future as we start to offload client side actions with wasm, starting to do this but the python wasm ecosystem is still maturing

slight aside, but it's refreshingly pleasant to see a cordial discussion between representatives of two competing aproaches. HN is better than some other sites, but there's still a fair bit of polarised "my choice is right and so yours is wrong".

I didn't know about either Pynecone or Anvil, and have a side project for a friend that might be well suited to one/both. So I'm both more enlightened on options, and more predisposed to both given the positive dialogue here. Thanks for both.