On: Towards Principled Reactive UI

[sarchertech]

I don’t know. Unity is completely redoing their UI stack, so I don’t think even they are happy with the current incarnation.

[boulos → sarchertech]

I meant Unity in the “you’re my game engine / scene graph” sense. Like why are game engines and scene graphs fairly successful, yet the comment I replied to is arguing “clearly retained mode doesn’t work”.

[sarchertech → boulos]

The hierarchy in a game object scene graph tends to be much shallower than a UI hierarchy, so I’m not sure if that is a good comparison.

[stephc_int13 → sarchertech]

It is absurdly easy to make a sluggish and extremely memory inefficient UI with the old Unity API.

I've seen that made many times.