←back to thread

Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

(github.com)
377 points porterde | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 21:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.463s | source
Show context
wiseowise ◴[14 Nov 24 22:51 UTC] No.42142078[source]▶
Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits.

It looks and works so intuitively.

replies(14): >>42142147 #>>42142252 #>>42142509 #>>42142582 #>>42142873 #>>42143270 #>>42143473 #>>42145120 #>>42145467 #>>42146571 #>>42147144 #>>42147616 #>>42148647 #>>42155384 #
Onavo ◴[14 Nov 24 22:58 UTC] No.42142147[source]▶
The answer is simple, mobile and relative layouts. GUI builders are easy when you can just use absolute positioning for everything (see Retool and the dozens of Retool clones). They become insanely complex when you can't.
replies(5): >>42142262 #>>42142267 #>>42142329 #>>42142436 #>>42145326 #
1. wiseowise ◴[14 Nov 24 23:13 UTC] No.42142267[source]▶
I don’t buy it. Android has amazing Constraint/Motion layout that adapts on screen size. Instead of improving XML tooling they’ve decided to follow latest fad and created Compose.
replies(1): >>42145331 #
2. pjmlp ◴[15 Nov 24 09:42 UTC] No.42145331[source]▶
Thank the Kotlin crowd at Mountain View.