Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces
This article only talks about one aspect of the larger problem in UI Development - the webification of everything.<p>It&#x27;s good that we&#x27;ve finally been able to agree on a common set of tools to make UIs, it&#x27;s just too bad it had to be this one.<p>The HTML&#x2F;JS&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;DOM mess is a pretty terrible solution that we seem to be stuck with.<p>History is peppered with UI authoring tools that were better but stewarded by companies that held to tight licensing that stunted their growth. Hypercard, delphi, adobe flash (and FLEX - which looks a lot like react), even unity has more intuitive wysiwyg UI tools that could have proved versatile with the right stewardship.<p>The difference is vertical integration. These companies made their tools complete solutions and often went so far as to put virtual machines on everything to interpret them correctly every time.<p>The article&#x27;s author touches on the license problem with python&#x27;s own pretty damn good QT lib.<p>If only someone could find a way to make a good tool without fucking up licensing.