I kinda wish instead of RSX we got something closer to SwiftUI than to React/JSX
I feel like despite the name and all the good it did for JS and the web, React is not exactly how I would envision "reactive UI" code to look like in 2024 if we have the choice of designing a language (or DSL) from a blank state
Which is not to say SwiftUI is perfect, but whatever code I write with it feels much more neatly organized / compartmentalized than similar code using React
IMHO the only real advantage of using JSX for cross-platform GUIs is... to reuse existing libraries that were built for the web, which means something like RSX has very little "transferable value" other than letting the developer transfer their conceptual knowledge of JSX to RSX. I'd argue that's a worse tradeoff than having the developer learn some new paradigm that is (again IMHO) objectively superior to the React/JSX one
TL;DR "SwiftUI but cross-platform" is the project I wish existed but doesn't. I'm aware of @Tokamak/TokamakUI but that's still very much incomplete and activity seems to have waned
Thanks for sharing that. It looks very interesting and I had not come across it even after lots of googling. It's still in 0.2 but I will definitely keep track of its development, so thank you
I feel like despite the name and all the good it did for JS and the web, React is not exactly how I would envision "reactive UI" code to look like in 2024 if we have the choice of designing a language (or DSL) from a blank state
Which is not to say SwiftUI is perfect, but whatever code I write with it feels much more neatly organized / compartmentalized than similar code using React
IMHO the only real advantage of using JSX for cross-platform GUIs is... to reuse existing libraries that were built for the web, which means something like RSX has very little "transferable value" other than letting the developer transfer their conceptual knowledge of JSX to RSX. I'd argue that's a worse tradeoff than having the developer learn some new paradigm that is (again IMHO) objectively superior to the React/JSX one
TL;DR "SwiftUI but cross-platform" is the project I wish existed but doesn't. I'm aware of @Tokamak/TokamakUI but that's still very much incomplete and activity seems to have waned