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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: Web-UI for Ada applications
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:08:38 +0200
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Gour <gour@atmarama.net> writes:

> Is using Dart/JS less evil than 3rd party GUI lib via Ada bindings?

JS is definitely more evil.

I'm not quite sure if Dart or bindings to a non-Ada GUI library are
preferable in general.

>> Make the calculation (and rendering?) server available through HTTP,
>> pushing results over a websocket.
>
> I was already told here about that option and using e.g. ZeroMQ or
> something...

I don't know if ZeroMQ talks HTTP and web-sockets.  We use AWS for that
purpose.

>> This way the users can push tasks from the UI to the server, and the
>> UI will receive the results (activating an event handler) once they
>> are available for display.
>
> Do you believe there won't be performance bottleneck for rendering?

That depends on the task and the chosen solution.

Greetings,

Jacob
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