grumblingdev

My job would be so easy as long as I can debug and trace things. But modern software engineering doesn't give a shit about debugging. There are just endless layers of abstraction, and glueing together 100s of packages…

I think the idea of one programming language everywhere has sailed, for a while at least. It looked like JavaScript was going to be able to do it. React and React Native were very promising. But since we now have…

Each platform has it's own webview control available as a shared library installed with the OS. MacOS has WKWebKit based on WebKit. Windows has WebView2 based on Edge/Chromium. Linux has webkit2gtk based on WebKit.…

I’m talking the most native look and feel for the Windows platform. Is it XAML and C#?

Things like Electron and React Native / Expo always seem really cool. Write once, run anywhere. When you see how large and well-resourced the companies are who use these frameworks, it really makes you feel as a solo…

Uses UIKit. How to tell if its React Native, SwiftUI or just Cocoa?

I run a command like `npm build`, and get an error about `python2 not found`. There are so many reasons why a command might not be found. There is way too much dynamic behavior. For every tool there are multiple ways to…

I do most of my programming in Node and TypeScript. It's nice and simple. I always wonder why we don't just use this syntax to write low-level system code. The module system is nice; functions, objects, and arrays are…