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Never seen a cross platform gui that I'd rather use than a website.


So you'd rather use a website to do heavy photo manipulation (Photoshop), edit a feature-length movie (Premier Pro), or compose GPU-heavy 3D effects (Nuke)?


Imagine you have seen a cross platform gui that you'd rather use over a website. What would it look like?


Something like Elm but that compiles to native binaries. It should come with Material Design level of HIG documentation and a tone of examples. The compiler and the Native/Kernel parts should be implemented in a modern systems programming language, maybe rust.


Why elm? It looks more like a DSL than a real language and a verbose one at that. I'm looking at some of these examples on their website, like the random number generator, and wondering why it takes so much code to print a random number to the screen.


A website


Oh, come on. html/css+js is capable, but the programming interface sucks. Surely, you can at least imagine something better.




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