[gherkinnn]

I have used and mostly like Shadcn, and yet their Radix-based radio button was a bit much, as are other choices, where similarly overblown solutions were used.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971

[notpushkin]

My main gripe with Shadcn and, well, most UI libraries nowadays, is that they are reinventing the wheel for like a thousandth time.

I’m trying out Ark UI on a side project. They do have some genuinely useful components, like tags input: https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/tags-input

They have a tabs/“segment group” component with a nice animated active element indicator which would probably be tricky to implement: https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/segment-group

And then they also have stuff like overcomplicated “click to copy” button and a <details> reimplementation: https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/clipboard, https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/collapsible

All with a verbose markup that renders as a div soup.

[Griffinsauce]

I think this is really an indictment of the platform. Much more stuff should be covered by the browser.

[notpushkin]

I vote we bring back <marquee> next: https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/marquee

[gjvc]

this is actually true; the web was done so terribly to begin with on day one, that we have been paying the price of compatibility thereto ever since.

[skydhash]

The web was for hyperlinked documents (and forms?). And it’s still does the job beautifully. It was never an UI toolkit.