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0 pointsAaargh203188y ago0 comments

> Because writing, testing and deploying on each of those platforms will increase your effort from X to N*X.

No, it won't. Building any non-trivial UI in HTML takes orders of magnitude more effort and time than building it in a UI toolkit that was actually designed to build user interfaces in.

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Klathmon8y ago· 5 in thread

That is absolutely false in my experience.

I can put together a full HTML/CSS/JS UI for a screen in hours where it will take me days to do it on Android or iOS alone, ignoring the fact that I'd have to make sure it's responsive on all those platforms anyway (because tablets), then still build it for windows, linux, mac, and sometimes a web version anyway.

Aaargh20318OP8y ago

> I can put together a full HTML/CSS/JS UI for a screen in hours

Hours for a single screen ? Exactly what I'm talking about. The fact you think that's quick is worrying.

Klathmon8y ago

You are the second person to say this, what are you doing that's faster?

I'm talking from start-to-finish creating the UI, wiring into business-logic, handling UI state, making it fully responsive, etc...

I've used WPF, QT, some old java swing stuff, and the Android studio layout editor, and none of them are a fraction as fast and capable as a well setup react web application (which to be fair, took a good chunk of time to setup).

tzahola8y ago

Sure, because the browser will go out of its way to render something sensible out of any tag soup thrown at it, as opposed to throwing an exception like native frameworks do.

postfacto8y ago

A competant iOS or OS X developer can use Interface Builder to create great native UI’s in minutes.

Klathmon8y ago

If you are including the wiring of the UI into the application in that time I'm impressed, however you still will need to do another 3 major platforms.

And you'll need to have a designer look them over or design them in the first place for each platform, and write documentation for each platform, and test each platform, etc...

In many cases I won't argue that a native app won't be better for the user in many ways, but you can't argue that it's faster to re-create, document, and test your UI 5 different times.

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