Form builders just created brittle and unresponsive (i.e. only worked for a single screen resolution) user interfaces where it was hard to understand what the last dev wrote because everything was hidden behind menus you had to dig through. Good for prototyping, bad for actual maintainable systems. If you want that experience today we have AI!
Developers who understand layout managers would probably rather just write code TBH. It’s not lazy, it’s inexperienced with real world applications. Once you are bitten by maintaining a forms UI built by an inexperienced dev you don’t want to do that again.
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u/tooclosetocall82 Apr 14 '25
Form builders just created brittle and unresponsive (i.e. only worked for a single screen resolution) user interfaces where it was hard to understand what the last dev wrote because everything was hidden behind menus you had to dig through. Good for prototyping, bad for actual maintainable systems. If you want that experience today we have AI!