On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 04:07:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 06/01/2021 19:19, Pancho wrote:
>> On 06/01/2021 19:08, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 06/01/2021 19:03, Pancho wrote:
>>>> On 06/01/2021 18:39, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>> On 06/01/2021 18:35, Andy Burns wrote:
>>>>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> if you use crappy interpreted languages with untyped variables
>>>>>>>> then you've chosen to accept that sort of thing as normal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sadly javaScript is all you get in a browser
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or wasm, which can run compiled code from
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      C
>>>>>>      C++
>>>>>>      C# Kotlin Rust etc
>>>>>
>>>>> How can you run code compiled for *86 on a ARM based browser?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Use an intermediate language and a virtual machine, similar to Java
>>>> JVM or .net runtime.
>>> yeah. I looked it up...
>>>
>>>
>> So my looking it up was a waste of time ;-)
>>
>> I've always found web GUI work very difficult. I keep hoping someone
>> will make it as simple a native GUI, but it still seems overly
>> difficult.
>>
> Oh. reverse for me. couldn't write an X window program to save my life.
> Quite happy to design stuff in html and javascript tho

Same, apart from the Javascript and X-Windows: I don't use either.

However, implementing GUI windows in Java with AWT and Swing is easy
enough, particularly if you use the 3rd party se.datadosen.riverlayout
package to control object placement on windows and panels.

PHP is quite easy to write too, though it can be a bit harder to debug
than Java. The O'Reilly PHP book is pretty good.

Curses works well if you just want to format a console screen and, in any
case, its easy enough to re-implement if you you need its capabilities in
a language that can't call functions from the C standard library.


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