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If that was the case, Google wouldn't be pushing Houdini, and everyone else pushing WebGL and WebGPU.

By the way, already mastered all CSS tricks to force hardware rendering?

Motif might be irrelevant, yet its ideas live on across all modern toolkits for native programming and the Web had to wait for the WPF team to bother submitting WPF grids to W3C as base concept.

Delphi and VB are doing pretty well.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi?aldSet=en-GB

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/net-developme...

And their ideas influence one of the best Web RAD tools, that only we in enterprise care to use.

https://www.outsystems.com



>If that was the case, Google wouldn't be pushing Houdini, and everyone else pushing WebGL and WebGPU.

Because they can't possibly be pushing very diminishing return features, or stuff that only applies to niche markets ?

>And their ideas influence one of the best Web RAD tools, that only we in enterprise care to use.

It's not like "used for enterprise software" is a great endorsement :-)


It is the only target demography that actually pays for tools.


Perhaps it's the only target demographic that actually needs such tools :-)


Yes, because the others are too busy reinventing the wheel before building a carriage, instead of paying for a car.

Then they act surprised that they only get as far as reinventing carriages with different amounts of wheels and horses every couple of years.




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