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New comment by bobajeff in "Deno Desktop"

bobajeff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:05:51 +0000

No. As I understand it, the Raw backed just gives you a Window with input handling and you have to embed something like Skia, WebGPU for the graphics. So basically you have make your widget library yourself.

Now you can just start a server with deno pretty easily and serve a website. But WebUI will actually also manage opening the browser window for you as well a make the communication between backend and frontend just like using a Webview or electron.

New comment by bobajeff in "Deno Desktop"

bobajeff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:21:20 +0000

I'm happy to see this I see that this provides CEF, Webview and Raw * backbends but it would be nice if there was also a launch in browser option (like WebUI has). To me that has the best tradeoffs if you want to avoid the mess that is webkitgtk but still not ship (and be in charge of updating) a chromium engine with your app.

* https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/backends/

New comment by bobajeff in "Deno Desktop"

bobajeff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:12:14 +0000

There's also just shipping with a Web interface that opens in a browser (like Jupyter, or WebUI apps). Plus there's the option to use the system Webview like Deno Desktop (this), Tauri and Electrobun do by default.

So thankfully we can still have our REPLs with live reloading and nice documentation (MDN, W3schools etc.) and large library of embeddable UI components without most the costs of using electron.

New comment by bobajeff in "Deno Desktop"

bobajeff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:52:45 +0000

Deno actually has had a built in compile to binary feature * I've used it before a few times.

* https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/compile/

New comment by bobajeff in "Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas"

bobajeff — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:15:56 +0000

For those interested here * is a similar project that I believe is *not* vibe coded posted a few weeks ago **.

* https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor

** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228411

New comment by bobajeff in "Blorp Language"

bobajeff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:43:21 +0000

Scope being determined by indention makes it easier to paste things in the wrong scope and not notice.

New comment by bobajeff in "KDE at 30"

bobajeff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Just adding my respect for the team behind KDE. I left KDE for more resource friendly desktops and window managers around the KDE 4 transition. Then in the last couple of years came back. It's definitely the most feature complete and sane option for Linux desktops.

When they transition to Wayland I'll probably have to move away again as my hardware won't support it but I'll still likely use dolphin as it's a better file manager than all the others.

New comment by bobajeff in "Blorp Language"

bobajeff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:49:26 +0000

I know there are people that are used to the indention based scope but that has a real problem when it comes to copy/pasting code. I think a alternative that still looks pretty clean is to do like Ruby and Julia and have the function/class imply begin and have a literal 'end'.

New comment by bobajeff in "Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml"

bobajeff — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:29:31 +0000

I'm one of those people that prefer vscode (actually I'd prefer just about any editor with a UI designed within the last couple of decades over emacs). Lately I've been thinking about working though a nice Lisp book just because the idea appeals to me.

New comment by bobajeff in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

bobajeff — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:08:19 +0000

This is great news!

Hister sounds like a idea I had years ago but gave up on after running into issues with index size taking up way too much storage.

Long ago I've used Searx and really liked it but after some point didn't see the point as opposed to using Google more directly. But lately in the back of my mind I've thinking about checking in on it again.

New comment by bobajeff in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

bobajeff — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:03:59 +0000

I also like their AI Overview (though just like all the other LLMs it confidently tells me wrong info all the time). Still I miss when Google was a good information retrieval system where you could give it a string of text and it would find just about anything I was trying to remember having seen somewhere before.

New comment by bobajeff in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

bobajeff — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:11:08 +0000

This is my first time hearing about Electrobun it sounds like it could be a good alternative to electron. Their site mention CEF bundling as an option has anyone tried this?

New comment by bobajeff in "Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps"

bobajeff — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:59:18 +0000

This looks really impressive. How hard was it to implement this in typescript?

Presentation of Xcas, the Swiss knife for mathematics

bobajeff — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:36:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www-fourier.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/~parisse/giac.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180508

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobajeff in "Native all the way, until you need text"

bobajeff — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:19:05 +0000

Qt Bridges might be better if your project can use the `Qt Design Studio Enterprise license`. Otherwise Slint looks like the better option.

Not that I'd use either when I can just make a Web based UI most of the time and be done with it.

New comment by bobajeff in "Native all the way, until you need text"

bobajeff — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:34:54 +0000

The link says litehtml is C++. I can't tell if it exposes an FFI (I bet not)

Of course blitz doesn't expose a FFI either and also if you need anything interactive you have to use the dioxius framework or implement you own APIs for that as well as take care of animation yourself.

New comment by bobajeff in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"

bobajeff — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:35:28 +0000

I like to watch 3blue1brown too but I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say his topics are accessible to normal folks. From my perspective I think it's more realistic to say he makes videos that shows you the beauty in math without having to understand it really. Which is valuable since most people get turned off on math because tiresome drills and tests hammered into them at school by people with zero interest in it.

New comment by bobajeff in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

bobajeff — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:33:37 +0000

I've been keeping my eye on mojo. Honestly though the thing I least like about Python is it's syntax.

Someone else here is bringing up Julia. Which I think is a fine language but the compiler error messages and the library documentation are not what I would want in a language as far along as it is. I'm also worried about the correctness issues I've read about in a blog awhile back. Also I don't feel like I can make the kind of Python module I want with it (because of binary size and time to first x)

That being said I'm only hoping that Mojo can become an option. But I really like to use a REPL and I like the dynamicness of Python. So I might not ever get around to doing anything outside of maybe Numpy for performance.

New comment by bobajeff in "PySimpleGUI 6"

bobajeff — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:41:10 +0000

No, sorry, I wasn't referring to any library. I just meant a UI I made out of HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

New comment by bobajeff in "PySimpleGUI 6"

bobajeff — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:54:13 +0000

I remember looking into GUI libraries for Python a while back and this one and qt came up.

However I ended up settling on making a Web UI served via FastAPI. I'm still happy about that decision but this one sounded really nice back then.