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Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP

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238 points jamesbvaughan | 3 comments | 01 Jul 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.934s | source
1. mikewarot ◴[01 Jul 25 20:10 UTC] No.44437591[source]▶
This is close to the functionality that Borland Delphi had back in the 1990s. The pascal language and the design of their GUI toolkit were a really good impedance match, so you could freely switch between GUI design and editing the text version of it.

Doing so for languages like C++, was a sea of boilerplate that you couldn't touch, which is why I never moved away from Pascal. Similar fragility was evident in WxPython and it's builder.

I'm glad to see that LLMs can provide a match for less well suited Language/GUI pairs. We all deserve to get that kind of productivity.

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2. lmz ◴[02 Jul 25 04:46 UTC] No.44440328[source]▶
Delphi's form files weren't pascal. The gui-sync was in my memory just editing the class definition when adding components / event handlers.
3. RossBencina ◴[02 Jul 25 07:19 UTC] No.44440997[source]▶
Borland C++ Builder did the same thing as Delphi, used the Delphi VCL class library, worked great.