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Is software getting worse? (blog.ploeh.dk)
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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I can understand it tho. What other GUI toolkits have a markup language like HTML? It's so easy compared to having 50 billion different widgets, adding stuff through code is so verbose..

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Okay but do you expect me to actually know anything about what I'm saying?

    (Jokes aside my bad TIL thanks)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The real benefit with Electron is the whole write-once-run-everywhere goal that Java was supposed to originally achieve, combined with super fast prototyping.

    Maybe one day we'll get a JIT/AOT version of HTML.

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