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Comment by treespace88 | Hacker News Reader

Yes, it feels like the desktop gui framework/language wars that have been raging since the 90s are finally ending.

As a desktop developer working with everything from visual basic, C++ win forms, QT, swing, C#, html and javascript. I could not be happier.

Finally we have a GUI stack where I don’t have to re write everything every 10 years.

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Finally we have the worlds least-integrated, poorly accessible, completely inconsistent, most difficult to theme, resource intensive GUI stack. Software devs rejoice at the job security of JS framework churn while stealing user data and shoving ads in their face to pay their own salaries.

In the web world you are pretty much relearning new APIs, frameworks, approaches and what not every second year.

What has it settled to? Html, css and JavaScript?

Btw if you consider that, there are wars over which JavaScript framework.

They all still compile to the same stack, so no problem. I don’t have to throw away my working jquery/angularjs/scriptaculos/dojo/react/ code just because angular.io is pretty cool.

In time vanilla js will eat them anyways.

> Btw if you consider that, there are wars over which JavaScript framework.

None. Simple as that. At least for something like the Crew Dragon control panels, any kind of JS framework would add unnecessary bloat for very little use, because they were all designed with a very different goal, definitely not to write the UI portion of a C++ application that controls a spaceship.

Just stick to vanilla JS, simple HTML and well-written CSS and circumvent the framework wars altogether.

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