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This looks good. But the thing that always lets me down on UI frameworks is how much freaking work it is to get something on the screen. My first language was Borland Turbo C++. It was so comparatively simple to do stuff. If I want to write a circle on the screen its just this: #include #include int main() { int gd = DETECT, gm; initgraph(&gd, &gm, "C:\\TURBOC3\\BGI"); circle(320, 240, 100); getch(); closegraph(); re…
At first I was very excited about this project. After reading the comments, I'm now deeply saddened by it... Given how much competition there already is in the GUI framework space, it's very difficult to see why something hastily thrown together by AI would get much traction. To really make an impact in this space, I think we'll need to see something thoughtfully designed that really tries to innovate in some profoun…
Zig still lacks a proper GUI framework that you can actually rely on.
It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec... I wonder if this is just what we get now: low quality code, expressed rapidly. We are excited by the promise only to be disappointed by the reality…
Have seen it from jobseekers trying to boost their profile with fake projects, founders trying to make their product more attractive to VCs, consultants trying to advertise their services...
I don't always have time for OSS, but every PR I've ever sent has always been hand written, and tested, and has taken into consideration the project coding style and architecture choices – I don't like this new world where developers can't even be bothered to write the docs.
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We're in the messy transition period where our old indicators of a promising GitHub project are too easily replicated by someone letting Claude Code run for a few days. A year ago it would have taken someone months of nights and weekends effort to get this much code up and running. That person would have developed a good intuition for the architecture and where it should go. Now Codex or Claude can bang it out in a c…
I don’t know, GPT-5.5 has been very effective for me. It’s not perfect but the quality of refactoring it can do is awesome. Previous models both GPT and Claude would struggle with the larger picture more. Pretty quickly they’d do one off hacks. Eventually they’d code themselves into a wall if you weren’t careful. Haven’t hit that wall with GPT-5.5 yet. New changes or improvements on a GUI library I’m building seem to…
It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec... I wonder if this is just what we get now: low quality code, expressed rapidly. We are excited by the promise only to be disappointed by the reality…
This looks good. But the thing that always lets me down on UI frameworks is how much freaking work it is to get something on the screen. My first language was Borland Turbo C++. It was so comparatively simple to do stuff. If I want to write a circle on the screen its just this: #include #include int main() { int gd = DETECT, gm; initgraph(&gd, &gm, "C:\\TURBOC3\\BGI"); circle(320, 240, 100); getch(); closegraph(); re…
So VB6 or earlier is what you are probably remembering, and VB has a fascinating history as it started life as a wysiwyg design tool before it was attached to any language. However, you need to remember that these simpler tools were a product of a much simpler set of requirements. Fixed themes, fixed screen size, fixed aspect ratios. I imagine a wysiwyg editor that gives you all the power of, say, CSS, and yet remain…
It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec... I wonder if this is just what we get now: low quality code, expressed rapidly. We are excited by the promise only to be disappointed by the reality…
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I don’t know, GPT-5.5 has been very effective for me. It’s not perfect but the quality of refactoring it can do is awesome. Previous models both GPT and Claude would struggle with the larger picture more. Pretty quickly they’d do one off hacks. Eventually they’d code themselves into a wall if you weren’t careful. Haven’t hit that wall with GPT-5.5 yet. New changes or improvements on a GUI library I’m building seem to…
This is what people say after every new model is released though.
Show me the GUI! We are gonna need more than a couple pics of chat-zig.