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Discussion on: What happened to Graphical GUI Builders? - Help me understand - (They are still here, I guess)

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Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin

The reason is that frontend development for web is chaotic.

It would be fine if you only had to deal with HTML and CSS, but then you have stuff like Angular that you don't code what it will be shown. You basically code in a code generator.

You have components being shown depending on conditions that will be decided at runtime. Front-end web is all about runtime. You can't always know what to show before running the app.

But I understand you. I miss the GUI editors (even though they usually generated a lot of dirty code)