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My requirements are thus:

  1. Works offline

  2. Code is not obfuscated, does not have tons of added dependencies and libraries. I'm trying to speed up codewriting, not replace it completely.

  3. Is not a virus

  4. Generates files which can be hosted anywhere.

Unfortunately that seems to disqualify pretty much everything I've been able to find with a regular search engine. It would be nice, wouldn't it? To just have a photo-editor like program to throw a layout together, a list of divs and content, and another panel showing all the properties where you can set pixels or percentages, lock it in for non-flexible or leave it auto adjusting. Have them inherit properties from like a custom composition.

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[โ€“] finitebanjo 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Visual Basic and Windows Forms literally do have GUI development options. It's been around for decades.

And LLMs shit out way worse code than old automation tools.

[โ€“] ArbiterXero 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah Visual Basic has been dead for a decade.

It sucked then too.