sciter VS go-qml

sciter

• Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
• Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024

  > wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries

  There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com

  > I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex.

  It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge.

  Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and iterating them in reverse for RTL is brain-breaking. And line wrapping gets really complicated. It's also the most obscure because nobody has written down everything you need to know in one place. After I finished block layout early on, I had to stop for a couple of years (only working a few hours a week though) and learn all of the ins, outs, dos, and don'ts around shaping and itemizing text. A lot of that I learned by reading Pango's [1] source code, and a lot I pieced together from Google searches.

  But other than that, the W3C specifications cover almost everything. The CSS2 standard [2] is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. It's internally consistent, concise, and obviously the result of years of deliberation, trial and error. (CSS3 is great, but CSS2 is the bedrock for everything).

  [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/

• Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
• Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
• Immediate Mode GUI Programming
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024

  otherwise, if we have only retained mode as in browsers, we will need to modify the DOM heavily and create temporary elements for handles.

  [1] https://sciter.com

• This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
• Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023

  I've still never used it but I've long been curious about Sciter:

  https://sciter.com

• Ode to the M1
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
• So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023

  These bullet points are exactly what I did in Sciter (https://sciter.com)

  - Windowing

  -- Tabs

  -- Menus

  -- Painting

  -- Animation

  -- Text

  -The compositor

  -Handling input

  -- Pointer input

  -- Keyboard input

  - Accessibility

  - Internationalization and localization

  - Cross-platform APIs

  - The web view

  - Native look and feel

  On top of that DOM and CSS implementations to achieve declarative UI. And JS as a languuage behind UI - declarative in some sense way of defining UI behavior.

• Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023

  I'm not sure if it can support all the libraries but yes it can be used to make desktop apps. Theres also Sciter.

  https://sciter.com/

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