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Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
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On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 9:52:42 AM UTC-4, EGarrulo wrote:
> Even if there were a RAD IDE for GUI applications based on=20
> HTML/CSS/JavaScript, I wouldn't have recommended it anyway, because=20
> JavaScript - with all its pitfalls - is hardly a language that is=20
> suitable for hobbyists.  GUI programming done the old way is still the=20
> easier route for a hobbyist programmer.

There are definitely options out there for web technology based GUI framewo=
rks where the user doesn't need to dabble in javascript or HTML.  Wt for C+=
+ is one example, and Gnoga for Ada is another.  Both work to abstract out =
all the JS and HTML5 code needed to make the GUI so the programmer can focu=
s programming in the language they do the rest of their code in.