alt Hacker NewsOK, but what about actually using a GUI toolkit to make an actual application?
You can optimize a library to make it comparatively simple to draw a circle on a screen. But that tells me nothing about binding state, signals, styling, widget hierarchy, etc. Maybe these frameworks look complicated to you because doing something more than drawing a circle is actually more complicated.
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hombre_fatal • yesterday at 9:49 PM
Agreed. I want a coherent, deliberate architecture for building an application and managing state.
That's the hard part. I'll take on incidental boilerplate (e.g. Elm) if the architecture helps me build and understand applications. Whatever gets me to that latter part.
VB was used to create a great many data-munging applications in its time, and while they were never pretty, they were lightning fast, largely consistent, and generally far more reliable than what we currently have.