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Just found out that you can CTRL+T in fedora's installation GUI to browse web pages in firefox, amazing! (programming.dev)

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Writing stuff in a proper gui framework using the tools we've had for decades is not really that bad, it's just not what all the tutorials are for. CSS can be an absolute pig to get things just so, or was until quite recently.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

CSS is terrible, no doubt about it, but the problem is exactly that: native GUI frameworks haven't changed in the way they work. Why else do you think electron became popular? Obviously there was reason for it

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it became popular because you can deliver the same app to mobile and desktop platforms. And because js gave people a very easy intro to development on the web so tons of people know it.

I don't think it became popular because it was better at making an application on a single target. I've never made a webapp with the equivalent of GLADE or QtCreator so I don't know if it even exists - but those tools are very decent if you had a basic understanding of UI layout.