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Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by cschmidt »

CameronBanga wrote: post #2

Note for OP. Quark seems like an SEO deathblow to a project. Seems best to rename and give the project a chance?

Also, Quark is a trademark of a software company, who's lawyers will eventually be in touch

http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Legal/

Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by floki999 »

It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies. It still doesn’t allow you to easily share your dashboard with other internal users (unless they have the same Quark environment), does it?

Perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway, it’s nicely done.

Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by n4bz0r »

> Your sketches provide you with all the capabilities of full fledged electron apps. The only difference here is that they just weigh a few kilobytes instead of hundreds of megabytes. We achieve this functionality by using a shared JavaScript runtime for all your sketches.

Why is this being promoted as a feature? Of course you wouldn't want to make a copy of GUI framework for each user's project. That's quite a stretch for a per-project config files advertisement.

I would suggest adding "Show HN" tag, and "JS" somewhere in the title.

Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by nine_k »

floki999 wrote: post #4

It looks great, and I understand the use-case. But the downside I see is that while Quark is lightweight it still has a ton of dependencies. It still doesn’t allow you to easily share your dashboard with other internal users (unless they have the same Quark environment), does it? Perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway, it’s nicely done.

It's not for product development, AFAICT. It's a quick scripting / prototyping / scratch-your-itch environment. And for that purpose it looks quite good, resembling the most productive Lisp and Smalltalk environments, but with more easily separable single-file "projects".

It also looks like a great environment to teach programming past toy-level environments like MIT Scratch.

Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by jdnier »

cschmidt wrote: post #3
CameronBanga wrote: post #2

Note for OP. Quark seems like an SEO deathblow to a project. Seems best to rename and give the project a chance?

Also, Quark is a trademark of a software company, who's lawyers will eventually be in touch http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Legal/

Yep, Quark has been used for page layout and typesetting since the 80s. They do web layout now also, so this js project seems to have some overlap potential.

Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

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Post by protomyth »

cschmidt wrote: post #3
CameronBanga wrote: post #2

Note for OP. Quark seems like an SEO deathblow to a project. Seems best to rename and give the project a chance?

Also, Quark is a trademark of a software company, who's lawyers will eventually be in touch http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Legal/

Yeah, Quark's lawyers are not shy and quite aggressive.
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