Ask HN: What was better in the golden age of tech (a.k.a. the grumpy thread)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • NanoGUI

    Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

    I've dipped my toes into GUI development just enough to know you can have "simple," or you can have "native," but not both. There are smaller projects like nanogui[0] and microgui[1] out there, but of course they're only as small as they are because they don't use native widgets.

    [0]https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui/tree/master/src

    [1]https://github.com/ryankurte/micro-gui

  • micro-gui

    Minimal GUI framework for Embedded Systems

    I've dipped my toes into GUI development just enough to know you can have "simple," or you can have "native," but not both. There are smaller projects like nanogui[0] and microgui[1] out there, but of course they're only as small as they are because they don't use native widgets.

    [0]https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui/tree/master/src

    [1]https://github.com/ryankurte/micro-gui

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  • TablaM

    The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

    Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30414068:

    FoxPro

    Imagine what all that "low-code" apps pretend to do, but do it better, faster, far more powerful. And in DOS 2.6.

    You can do all: Forms, Reports, Apps, utilities, code the database (queries, stored procedures, etc) all with the SAME language and 0 impedance mismatch.

    And the Form/Report Builder rival what Delphi do it later.

    ---

    My dream is to resurrect the spirit of it (https://tablam.org). One thing that make this apart from the "low-code" of today: These were tools made for run in YOURS devices, not in a "cloud" where you are at mercy, not only of overlords, but of the latency. This kind of tool feel way faster than moderns because this little thing: Run local is way faster!

    So, If I could get the way to dedicate it, this could be the major advantage: Local First, Cloud capable.

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