Hacker News Reader

Comment by roel_v | Hacker News Reader

Not sure what the point is on the first two - you wouldn't even need that with a non crap ui framework.

Video - I drag and dropped video players onto UI forms 20+ years ago. <video> is a joke - you need something like video.js to make it functional in the real world and at that point, good luck on 'simplicity'. Adult sites have entire teams working on their video players, how messed up is that?

The problem today (old fart mode on) is that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And it seems that people don't even just only have a hammer, they don't even know what things that are not hammers look like.

View on HN

> Not sure what the point is on the first two - you wouldn't even need that with a non crap ui framework.

Server-side rendering is a business need not a programming need. A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation. To do this on the web platform is a well-supported pattern. To do this with Qt you'd have to implement your own HTML- or JSX-like framework on top of Qt (like Hyperview does for mobile).

Companies that use Electron can just move faster and crush competition. That's why there are billion dollar companies based on Electron programs and Qt people get excited about it being the software behind the radio volume button on the latest model fishing boat.

>Server-side rendering is a business need not a programming need. A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation

The topic is about general desktop GUI applications. Some users of desktop applications don't even have internet connection e.g for security considerations. Tell me more about changing application UI without internet connection.

"A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation"

I did that 20+ years ago too and no I didn't need an 'HTML- of JSX-like framework'. Again, when all you have is a hammer...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com