I'm using Electron ( shell? ) to make a simple desktop app. Certain things are much nicer, such as the ability to have everything be "owner draw" in a way that isn't as frustrating as using owner draw in the usual context. IE,
I can easily at a bitmap background to whatever component I want. I can control a lot of the look/feel of the UI with style sheets.
IMHO, React is another way of covering up 20 years of bad design decisions that went into web tech. React is the natural reaction to using a tree of text to represent data structures. If things were done right, React wouldn't exist.
By 'real modules' I mean things like DLLs that can be hot swapped at app start or at runtime.
The more I look into things like Atom, the more I am disturbed by what constitutes 'state of the art' in web tech.
IMHO, React is another way of covering up 20 years of bad design decisions that went into web tech. React is the natural reaction to using a tree of text to represent data structures. If things were done right, React wouldn't exist. By 'real modules' I mean things like DLLs that can be hot swapped at app start or at runtime. The more I look into things like Atom, the more I am disturbed by what constitutes 'state of the art' in web tech.