[javascript-dev] Re: Re: Re: jsui was a mistake.

Zola full of lightning?

On 10/4/07, Zola <looseonthestreet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Joshua,
>
> Yes, making a lua extern takes just a few hours of work with luabind. I've done so. But the key issue here is something else.
>
> Sketch is great. jit.gl.sketch + jit.gl.pwindow works well in the mostly-monolithic scenario. While I have no issues pushing towards eight sketches, it doesn't work out for atomic.
>
> With Sketch, I would not create a whole set of building block UI components to use everywhere and love. I use Sketch for centerpiece UI's. Not for lego-bricks.
>
> Atomicity is what JSUI is supposed to be able to do.
> And that's where it fails too.
> It's too slow for that.
>
> So really, there is no use-case for JSUI:
> We don't want it for atomic, (watch everything freeze up completely.)(hear your music die)
> And we don't want it for what Sketch does.
>
> I am driving at a stronger point here.
> A powerful, fast, take-it-for-granted-that-it-just-works-fundamental-essential-building-block-of-the-whole-entire-MAX-idea,
> A way of building UI components to go inside of Max,
> Perfectly. As a core-feature of Max,
> is so important.
> It's the basics, man.
> It baffles me how Cycling has placed such little importance on getting this right,
> and allows JSUI to remain a failure.
> The need is so obvious.
>
> - Invect
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