Cannot agree more. I have used like 20 Native UI Toolkits ( MFC,WxWidgets,QT, WinForms, WPF, VCL, Android, Jetpack, SwiftUi, GTK, and the list goes on ) i have even written one myself ( for in game uis )
I still cannot comprehed how we ended up with the shitshow that is CSS/HTML.
Even Javascript nowadays is a workable language ( or otherwise typescript ) WebAssembly is great... but the actual UI Layer with the DOM and CSS .... just a nightmare
Every time i have to work on something a bit more complex on the browser, i ponder of writing my own UI Toolkit based on Canvas/WebGL or WebGPU and just draw everything myself
I am not sure, Flutter is still using DART ?
That's a pretty big no go, last time i looked DART was a haphazard clone of Java/C#/Kotlin with no discerning features of any value.... I rememember when it was supposed to be the new Javascript (transpiling and big dreams of landing a native Dart VM in browsers )
For me its a no go to have a language that's bascially a dead end outside of one specific ui framework.. Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
I still cannot comprehed how we ended up with the shitshow that is CSS/HTML. Even Javascript nowadays is a workable language ( or otherwise typescript ) WebAssembly is great... but the actual UI Layer with the DOM and CSS .... just a nightmare
Every time i have to work on something a bit more complex on the browser, i ponder of writing my own UI Toolkit based on Canvas/WebGL or WebGPU and just draw everything myself