alt Hacker NewsInteresting, will check that out!
My working thesis is that UIs are basically video games. Just a gut feeling I can't really 100% put in words.
But essentially they're the same thing: Read input, update model, render view.
Interesting, will check that out!
My working thesis is that UIs are basically video games. Just a gut feeling I can't really 100% put in words.
But essentially they're the same thing: Read input, update model, render view.
That's pretty much where immediate mode GUIs and to a less extent React came from. (Though for React the provenance is probably closer to the HTML web-app: send request - update model - return HTML with complete and completely new UI.)
The difference is that for most games, throwing away the complete rendered graphics and re-rendering from the world model is often the right approach.
For most UIs, it isn't, unless they really are very close to video games, for example mostly passive feed readers, video players etc.