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What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

provides a paradigm and an engine […], on which any other typical GUI framework would choke like a little baby

Uhuh. And how you think it does that?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Do you imagine that it abstracts an underlying GUI framework?

    Please tell me, how would an HTML engine render something like a few paragraphs of text flowing around embedded images whatever which way, if it did that over a traditional framework like Qt/Gtk/etc.

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