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Hey HN, Over the past 10 months, my friends and I created an open source project called Rio to help Python developers build modern web apps without needing HTML, CSS, or JavaScript…

Thank you so much for the kind words! It's always great to read messages like this. I can't wait to hear your feedback

Nope! No premade layouts, and not a single line CSS. Give it a shot :)

Agreed! And indeed we are still considering switching Rio to a Canvas + WebGL/WebGPU. The reason we've decided against it for now is accessibility, and weird edge cases such as Cop…

Most languages have arrays that grow automatically. I'd say C/C++ is the exception there. When I said array, I specifically meant O(1) access, which is in contrast to linked lists,…

List access is O(1), which effectively makes them arrays :)

Rio dev here. I 100% agree with you. We aren't expecting for JS developers to flock to rio en-masse. Instead, we're targeting the many, many Python devs that have been completely l…

Exactly! We've seen from personal experience just how many people are currently working on AI/datascience projects and would love to create UIs for them, but just can't. That's exa…

Rio dev here. You're right in that all Rio components use Material Design, but there is still room for configuration. I can't post pictures here, but if you check our discord, some…

You nailed it. Built-in components do as much work as possible directly on the client. Any Python code however runs on the server. This makes it dead-simple to e.g. connect to your…

We don't see ourselves as Python bindings for the web, but instead as a pythonic way to create apps. I understand that "span" has become a well known name amongst web developers, t…

Nailed it! We use pywebview. (Rio Dev here.) Local apps run inside of a webview. Think of it like electron but for Python. Even though this _should_ be cross platform, we've unfort…

Rio Dev here. I can see where you're coming from. Seeing an experience web-dev work can be mindblowingly fast. But there's two sides to each story - there's tons of developers that…

Hey, Rio dev here. Love to see us on Hackernews Rio comes with its own set of debug tools, so I don't see debugging as a problem. Our components even explain their entire layouting…