What I learnt from coding a text editor in C

>>62134753
Who is this semen demon?

>>62134753
That sounds reasonable. I am glad she is learning.

>>62134788
His name is Ashley

>>62134753
>Unidirectional UI is an attempt to bring data-driven programming to the UI world.
Is she implying here that this approach is a new development? This is how UIs have generally been implemented since the mid 90s.

Once you move to making mobile or desktop front end you appreciate how easy front end web dev really is.

Contrary to popular opinion I think the DOM, HTML, and CSS, are an awesome way of defining and styling a scene graph. When I did some C++ front end I missed them every day.

>>62135227
I can relate I think. Tried to make some gui for a script. Like sucking blood from stone. Never again.

>>62135227
Wtf is DOM?

>>62137924
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  if (argc != 2) {
    printf("Learn how to use an editor you noob!\n");
    exit(1);
  }

  char *filename = argv[1];

dropped

>>62135227
You got it the wrong way around.
It's just that all existing GUI libraries are messed up and so are all multimedia libraries, forcing you to implement your GUI in raw OpenGL.

Sure, I sometimes miss web stuff, when implementing proper text rendering, but then I remember the pain of placing nested elements in CSS.

>>62136771
That's because GUI APIs usually use more features than bindings support and it results in shitty workarounds.
Also, most bindings suck and/or are incomplete.

>>62135227
>once you spend 4 hours guessing the context of this and whether your number is an int or a float, you'll appreciate how easy web dev is.

In all seriousness, back when I did web dev internships, 99% of the time I spent was trying to get CSS to cooperate with me and figuring out why the CSS was broken on other browsers. As far as I'm aware, there's no way to do height: 100$ - 20px, for when you have a fixed width top bar.

>>62138060
>It's just that all existing GUI libraries are messed up and so are all multimedia libraries, forcing you to implement your GUI in raw OpenGL
not ncurses. ncurses is pretty dank.

>As a modern JavaScript developer
Literally stopped there, since a modern JS Dev doesnt actually write anything themselves. Of course they're going to be frustrated you have to DIY in C