475: I Do Declare

Mike's ready to make a case for Declarative UI, and Chris pulls back the curtain to reveal a spicy take.

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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Living more or less purely in desktop #Linux, I’m finding a lot to love but do wish the community didn’t have to rely so heavily on electron and that there we’re some blessed gui app toolkit that’s was well supported.
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• Introduction to declarative UI — Frameworks from Win32 to web to Android and iOS typically use an imperative style of UI programming. This might be the style you’re most familiar with—where you manually construct a full-functioned UI entity, such as a UIView or equivalent, and later mutate it using methods and setters when the UI changes.
• SwiftUI Overview — SwiftUI helps you build great-looking apps across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift
• React Native — React Native combines the best parts of native development with React, a best-in-class JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
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• SolarWinds hack: Untangling U.S. cybersecurity mess — “It’s certainly going to be the worst cyberattack in United States history thus far, and I don’t believe people understand its magnitude,”
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