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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 sigzero »

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.

Electron is pushed by JS devs because now they can target another platform with their toolset. The JS crowd is rather large. Sadly, Electron style apps aren't going to go away any time soon.

Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by spapas82 »

holydude wrote: post #18
spapas82 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Looks nice: agreed.

Feels nice? Try running an Electron app (for example atom or VS code) on a 4gb ram celeron (like the one I have at my 9-5 work) and I can guarantee that you won't like the feeling :/

Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by holydude »

spapas82 wrote: post #23
holydude wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Looks nice: agreed. Feels nice? Try running an Electron app (for example atom or VS code) on a 4gb ram celeron (like the one I have at my 9-5 work) and I can guarantee that you won't like the feeling :/

A lot of people care about looks and ergonomics before performance. I am not one of them but seriously people like shiny things. Even tech users like good UI before having to use your traditional shitty gui but performant app.

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Post by HelloNurse »

mtkd wrote: post #16
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.

Sure, there's going to be a bloom of compilers of anything to WASM, but what's discussed here is the opposite technology: lean native applications.

Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language

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Post by Volt »

holydude wrote: post #26
spapas82 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks nice: agreed. Feels nice? Try running an Electron app (for example atom or VS code) on a 4gb ram celeron (like the one I have at my 9-5 work) and I can guarantee that you won't like the feeling :/

A lot of people care about looks and ergonomics before performance. I am not one of them but seriously people like shiny things. Even tech users like good UI before having to use your traditional shitty gui but performant app.

They will start caring eventually. Even ordinary people got turned off of bloated-feeling Java apps on the desktop.
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