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Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by mstade » Wed, May 02, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

whowouldathunk wrote: post #17

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

> and now we're making traditional UI dev like web It's been like that on Windows since 2006 with XAML. In fact, if you squint at typical JSX, it looks like XAML. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.

Or MXML, which most certainly was influenced if not entirely derived from XAML. Everything old is new again!

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by kusti8 » Wed, May 02, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

mstade wrote: post #4

> It is not only shorter, it is also easier to read and to edit, and can easily utilize the power of the state. Easier to read and edit is obviously subjective, but shorter is not and that front page is just straight up lying. The Qt example is most definitely shorter. What am I missing?

Hey. I'm the author. It's hard to find a simple example that everyone understands but can show capabilities. If you're used to Qt then you're going to like Qt better, but I mainly developed this for people who want to use React. You are obviously free to use whatever you want.

But if you have any suggestions let me know!

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by kusti8 » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

memonkey wrote: post #18

This is super cool. Are there any demonstrations comparing performance between electron and your app?

Currently no. That's one thing that I want to test sometime, but right now I'm busy improving it.

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

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Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by coldtea » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

ratsimihah wrote: post #16

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

Writing React makes me feel more like building for web using native paradigms.

And yet there's not much that's like native GUI paradigms in React.

At least when concerning all major GUI libs.

It's more like a markup driving an immediate-mode graphics API.

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by kusti8 » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

ratsimihah wrote: post #12

Is this created and maintained by a single developer (kusti8?), community, or corporation?

I'm one highschooler with not enough time. Ideally this would come from someone who can maintain this full-time like a corporation, but so far no one has done it.

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by kusti8 » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

WorldMaker wrote: post #5

Other than Linux support, does this offer anything more than React Native's existing macOS and Windows forks/bindings?

I've tried to improve documentation and make it ready for use. Also all the forks is are platform specific while this is cross platform.

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by pweissbrod » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

UI seems to be effectively described using some sort of a markup language. HTML being the most well-understood markup language becomes a reasonable thing for stuff outside just web pages. It isnt perfect but it gets the job done. Sorta like phonegap :/

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by digi_owl » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

pweissbrod wrote: post #28

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

UI seems to be effectively described using some sort of a markup language. HTML being the most well-understood markup language becomes a reasonable thing for stuff outside just web pages. It isnt perfect but it gets the job done. Sorta like phonegap :/

Thing is that these days HTML is a pile of div tags that CSS and JS dangle off.

Damn it, didn't we just have an article on HN about creating art using CSS?!

Re: Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

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Post by digi_owl » Wed, May 02, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #7

It's pretty fascinating how tech tends to spread and influence. We spent years trying to make the web more like traditional UI dev, and now we're making traditional UI dev like web. I would never have believed this if you'd told me about it in 2010.

QML, anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML