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Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by spapas82 »

girishso wrote: post #6
KnstrOnline wrote: post #3

I really miss an awesome cross-platform GUI. Electron is awesome, but bloated.

Agreed. But Electrcn seems to be the only option these days.

Actually no. Electron is the hipster/trending one. Unfortunately it creates monstrous applications with hundred mb sized binaries and gb memory requirements.

Thanks but no thanks.

On the other hand Delphi and its open source brother Lazarus are creating real (not html ones) native apps with sub mb binaries with minor memory footprints using a great IDE that reminds me of VB6.

This is definitely the way to go for desktop apps!

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Post by jcelerier »

KnstrOnline wrote: post #3

I really miss an awesome cross-platform GUI. Electron is awesome, but bloated.

Qt with QtQuick is awesome, and not bloated :D (as in, it's good enough to work at very decent framerates on embedded systems)

Here's a simple example: https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML

Notice how the whole thing is a bit less than 150 lines, whereas for instance a Vue.js (the web framework the closest to QML in concept I'd say, though JSX is also not far) implementation is around 200 lines with HTML / CSS / JS (even though they say 120 lines?) : https://fr.vuejs.org/v2/examples/todomvc.html

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Post by mtkd »

MR4D wrote: post #2

I always wondered why there has been no real successor to VB. This looks promising!

I expect something equivalent or better to come out of what is happening with WASM in next year or so.

So many people are talking about missing the power of VB, early Delphi, Turbo Pascal etc. and WASM is first tech for a while that looks like it could take that power to the browser.

Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by throwaway7645 »

Always glad to see Red get some more attention. I think these little lightweight apps are the way to go for sure. I like freePascal + Lazarus too, but I wish they made certain things easier. Red's syntax isn't a silver bullet, but I like how they have DSLs for so many things and native data types for things like email and web scraping that would require libraries in other languages.

Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by holydude »

spapas82 wrote: post #11
girishso wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. But Electrcn seems to be the only option these days.

Actually no. Electron is the hipster/trending one. Unfortunately it creates monstrous applications with hundred mb sized binaries and gb memory requirements. Thanks but no thanks. On the other hand Delphi and its open source brother Lazarus are creating real (not html ones) native apps with sub mb binaries with minor memory footprints using a great IDE that reminds me of VB6. This is definitely the way to go for desk…

Electron is chic because it looks nice and it feels nice ...everywhere. Until it does not and then the costs of doing it in smh else are too high
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