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by PaulDavisThe1st 31 days ago
You expected highly capable, generic GUI toolkits to show parity with a development environment that has specifically targetted text above all else (though with lots of other stuff and great depth too) for decades?

Even in an era of PWAs and highly reactive UIs, the web is still fundamentally a document presentation mechanism. No generic GUI toolkit fits that description (even if they can be coerced into being one).

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Given how much shit the web gets from native developers, yeah kinda? They make it seem like it's light years ahead of the web, often arrogantly so.
For trees of interacting widgets, it is.

For text presentation, not so much.