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Discussion on: Why do I HATE NodeJS?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

I pretty like Node.js CLI apps.

JavaScript is not the only language that you can contain web browser in desktop app. Java, Go, Python are some others, and can have quite powerful web engine, if you use CEF.

While it is possible to deliver packaged local web server to your users (like Jupyter Notebook or Vue UI), it is usually not ideal for non-programmers.

Actually, I think that Web Engine as UI did serve as a stepping stone for XAML, FXML and Android XML, so you should thanks for it.

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Loralighte

I do not care for XAML, FXML, and Andriod XML, as they have their own special flaws, plus the fact most of my UI work does not include work built with any of those at this time as I try to keep all UI aspects non-markup. No non-programming aspects like HTML, Markdown, XAML, XML, BBCode, and the trillion or so others for a sense of stability and maintainability.