Do Windows, MacOS and Linux each have their own React like rendering engines to render the GUI apps?
It seems each OS would need to have a rendering engine to render the GUI apps? Are these engines dataflow rendering engines like React?
Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?
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Re: Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?
#2Kind of. And there's many over the history of thos operating system as they evolved. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#OS_dep...
Re: Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?
#3Kind of. And there's many over the history of thos operating system as they evolved. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#OS_dep...
Does it make sense to have a common rendering engine library that is common to both browsers and GUI desktops?
So something like a react rendering engine but the type of nodes change when you use it in different environments:
1. Using it on desktop for GUI: The nodes are like the native GUI elements for that OS
2. Using it on the web: the nodes are whatever HTML DOM nodes that have to be rendered
Re: Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?
#4Kind of. And there's many over the history of thos operating system as they evolved. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#OS_dep...
Does it make sense to have a common rendering engine library that is common to both browsers and GUI desktops? So something like a react rendering engine but the type of nodes change when you use it in different environments: 1. Using it on desktop for GUI: The nodes are like the native GUI elements for that OS 2. Using it on the web: the nodes are whatever HTML DOM nodes that have to be rendered
React for desktop already exists, so yes, I guess it makes sense https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows