Why aren’t Angular and React as scalable as game engines?

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3 points·CitrusFruits··3 comments

This is a spam post. It's just trying to sell Skuid.

But here's the reason. Web developers need to have their code work with multiple rendering engines with different bugs and interpretations of the specs. CSS is very finicky.

Basically you're always going to need to view the HTML/CSS. So trying to hide it behind a visual editor is setting yourself up for failure.

Didn't get the formatting right on the post; first time submitting something on HN. I'll add a tag next time.

I disagree with your point about how you're _always_ going to need to view the HTML/CSS. Sure, there's always a point at which it will become necessary, but when is it completely unnecessary? Do you really need to see the HTML for every button you put on the page? What about a header? A tabset?

that depends on whether the poster of the link is working on skuid or not. if yes, then it could have been posted as a "show HN" post and it would be fine, wouldn't it?

the idea of skuid is interesting and also not new. the comparison with game-engines is new. but to be honest i had thought game-engines would be just as much programming as a web-framework. really, this is just adding a UI-builder. i don't think it's letting you skip programming altogether.

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