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I keep saying this and will say it again: what's really needed is a state-ful GUI markup language. HTML+DOM+JS+CSS is the wrong tool for the CRUD/GUI job, and force-fitting it has inflamed the area so bad many don't want to even try to scratch it.

Bloated JS frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Electron have big learning curves and a jillion gotcha's because they have to reinvent long-known and loved GUI idioms from scratch, but DOM is inherently defective for that need, meant for static documents. There are just too many GUI needs that HTML/DOM lacks or can't do right: https://www.reddit.com/r/CRUDology/comments/10ze9hu/missing_...

Let's byte the bullet and create a GUI markup standard. Perhaps base it off Tk or Qt kits to avoid starting from scratch.



> Let's byte the bullet and create a GUI markup standard.

Heh, fun pun.

> Perhaps base it off Tk or Qt kits to avoid starting from scratch.

VCL / LCL.




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