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madeofpalk • yesterday at 12:58 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As a web developer in 2014 when I first heard about react, I had never heard about WM_PAINT as I was not a Win32 developer.


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skydhash • yesterday at 10:29 PM

The web root is a document platform. Every major GUI library have a “paint” or “draw” function you have to overload for custom widgets. And there is always mostly two kind of widgets: actual visible components and others that are responsible for layouts.