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emodendroket · 2017-05-22 13:36:55

Which is neat, but unless you are a library designer it's probably not that much of a selling point.

mort96 | karma 11266 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2018-01-25 23:21:42+00:00

That's really neat, I hadn't considered that. I will definitely try it out, and might end up using it for the library.

StavrosK | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2017-02-27 01:30:52

Sure, but I don't see it as being more evitable than any other popular library.

chris_wot | karma 14762 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2018-06-10 08:04:24

I don't think he's saying to do this in every library, it's just an interesting technique he uses for very minimalist libraries.

pfortuny | karma 5607 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2013-05-30 14:28:42+00:00

Thank you. So it makes some sense to me, developing this kind of library. Even if they have a marginal usability spectrum.

leephillips | karma 21974 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2021-01-08 18:03:48+00:00

I had not heard of that; it’s an interesting project. But of course it doesn’t address the issue I was talking about, which is the OO nature of existing libraries.

mhh__ | karma 13345 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2023-06-06 14:51:26

It's not a very good library IMO.

MagicMoonlight | karma 1334 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2023-03-13 07:14:36

I don’t really think slapping a UI on someone else’s library and then pumping and dumping it is that impressive.

joppy | karma 1327 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2019-12-03 10:38:52+00:00

It’s not supported everywhere though, so it’s not like you could use it to actually build a library, you would need to use something that fell back to Doubles anyway.

baggy_trough | karma 896 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2021-12-01 21:32:13

Yeah, that is pretty wild. Total prioritization of developer convenience over actual users of the library.

CivBase | karma 5170 | avg karma 3.58 · | 2020-12-12 23:30:15

This looks a lot to me like a cute-but-convoluted way of just reading the standard library documentation... but whatever works for you. I like it for the novelty, but I doubt I'd ever legitimately use it as a reference or for education.

ric2b | karma 1145 | avg karma 0.83 · | 2020-05-19 11:25:00+00:00

Yeah, it's limited by being a library instead of being part of the language itself.

teaearlgraycold | karma 2842 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2022-10-16 19:50:33

Yeah but it's not going to be a part of a library. It'll be a few lines of code from a library.

aaomidi | karma 5622 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2024-01-03 20:47:06

This is nice but it’s not a simple library to use and I think that’s going to hurt it.

lwhi | karma 3163 | avg karma 1.85 · | 2020-12-12 11:47:31+00:00

The library doesn't solve any UX problems; it just means the components don't need to be built from scratch.

scommab | karma 1505 | avg karma 16.91 · | 2012-01-02 00:26:56+00:00

While a very cool library, it will only be really useful once we get some content creation tools for it.

midrus | karma 1678 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2022-01-31 15:32:34

Not the 350+ libraries you need to pick to build anything useful with it.

tome | karma 8885 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2018-02-21 07:38:23+00:00

It's not one of the most importart libraries in the language. It's hardly used.

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 · | 2022-11-22 11:12:23

Seems common, though it only helps so much with 3rd party libraries.

ww520 | karma 9957 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2010-08-06 18:35:28+00:00

Possible drawback: it is commercial and not open source.

I think that's the main reason. $5000 does buy a lot of libraries.

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