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feverzsjtoday at 8:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

I still prefer good old GUI frameworks with WYSIWYG designers.


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jeroenhdtoday at 8:51 AM

I think Slint is getting pretty close to that these days: https://slint.dev/

No quick and easy drag&drop just yet, but IDE support for live preview rendering makes it come pretty close. I do long for the Visual Studio GUI design days, but things aren't as barebones anymore as they used to be in open source Rust land.

jenadinetoday at 10:37 AM

WYSIWYG designers seem convenient, but they're not that popular anymore for a reason. Writing UI in code is more flexible, easier to maintain, and works better as projects grow.

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