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Doesn’t seem like a big improvement? In fact the opposite. Sure, React’s stateful hooks mixing in a semi-declarative mode of programming in otherwise imperative code isn’t exactly intuitive, but the flexibility and familiarity you get from having full JavaScript at your fingertips is worth everything. Hands up anyone who want to learn how to make a for-loop with filter+map in xml syntax. Didn’t think so.
If you want to fix react what you should do instead is keep jsx and give stateful hooks a dedicated section that can’t be mixed up in rendering code.
The demo app shows a bunch of patterns. https://docs.xmlui.org/tutorial-01
But this ugly XML was the worst part of the old UI building experience, and you've made it worse by turning into a poor man's programming language without all the tooling proper languages have to support the poor user.
The good part was the immediate visual feedback in a GUI editor where you couldn't break anything by forgetting to close an XML tag! And you didn't even have to know all the types to type in because you had a visible list of UI elements you could pick from
Also, the Docs link to home.xmlui.com and don't resolve
Thanks for the 404 heads-up.
What seems particularly novel about this is that it’s taken the compositional approach of modern UI component libraries, and distilled it down to units of composition that can express a lot of behavior and logic declaratively. At least at a glance, that’s an impressive feat. Not necessarily in terms its technical capabilities (though that seems impressive too), but in terms of how it simplifies modeling interactive and data-driven UI.
And given Jon Udell has written about XSLT before[0], I'm sure this was an intentional decision. Not sure I understand it though.
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