[elviejo]

I applaud the idea of bringing back the Visual Basic model to the web. Again I don't expect people under 45 to remember how easy it was to develop a user interface that reacted to user actions.

I just don't see the need to create a new language to do it.

Firefox had XUL. And macromedia had Flex.

Flex was amazing it had an XML version and an OOP one.. that where two views of exactly the same language.

[mikestew]

Again I don't expect people under 45 to remember how easy it was to develop a user interface that reacted to user actions.

This recent HN submission gives a pretty good idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621102

[toyg]

Let's be honest, XUL was a pain for a number of mozilla-specific choices (rdf...). A lighter, better XUL would be absolutely fine.

[elviejo]

I think Flex was that better XUL