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ovenpasta

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    Comment #49441358

    I think depends on the use case, CSS styling, Ada, static self contained executable, portability, simplicity. I'm curious what people think about this, I'm happy with it and use it…

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    Comment #49430758

    Thanks! The real work is done in the Adi2 widget engine. Take a look at: https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/master/src/adi-widget... https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2/blob/mast…

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    Comment #49426975

    Thanks! You can watch the talk at Ada Developers Workshop Vasteras 2026, where I explain some of your questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-RISfK9Sy8 I should write more det…

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    Comment #49423447

    I agree on the repetitions those need cleanup. Regarding filenames, it is a GNAT convention (the GCC's ada compiler) where we need to have the package name on it separated by -

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    Comment #49423407

    The XML is just a layer, it gets compiled to normal code that creates / operates on the widget tree. On any user input callbacks are just Ada code that can again apply changes to w…

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    Comment #49423239

    Hi! Interesting! Your frameworks seems to be a kind of web browser, with dynamic content. Adi2 takes a different approach. Your entire app is static code. Every widget, every style…

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    Comment #49422814

    Author here, the library itself is pure Ada, the XML UI is just a convenience layer on top of it, there is a code generator that picks it and writes ada packages. happy to hear bet…

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