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The Failed Promise of Web Components

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367 points lemonberry | 3 comments | 30 Sep 20 15:59 UTC | HN request time: 1.04s | source
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Animats ◴[30 Sep 20 20:29 UTC] No.24643440[source]▶
What's so embarrassing is that the HTML/CSS/Javascript mess does roughly the job Visual Basic did. But worse.
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1. runawaybottle ◴[30 Sep 20 21:10 UTC] No.24643900[source]▶
Is that true? If I download Visual Basic right now, could I make a sensible visual app vs React?

I’m tempted to see if the truth is really out there.

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2. devit ◴[30 Sep 20 21:26 UTC] No.24644100[source]▶
No, Visual Basic 6 can only place controls by X/Y position, has no databinding and no VDOM or way to create controls other than placing them in the designer or manually creating and destroying them in code.

It's pretty terrible unless you want to make UIs with a fixed size and set of controls.

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3. runawaybottle ◴[30 Sep 20 21:46 UTC] No.24644340[source]▶
So then I’ll keep the question open. What is the dopest UI framework across any language with great paradigms, design language, developer experience, and of course, dope results?

Right now I’ll say the best iOS/android apps put web to shame. Is Flutter and SwiftUI where we should be looking? The question is specific to semi complex apps (typical crud), not websites.

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