# haxe-ui
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fast-rain-20339
07/20/2021, 10:38 AMNice! - u
user
07/20/2021, 11:38 AMNice, good riddance for setup that skips the xml syntax :D - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 12:18 PMyeah, its not totally gone yet... but im getting there - b
brave-kangaroo-30399
07/20/2021, 2:02 PMMacros are wild - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:03 PMyeah, you can do some nifty stuff, thats for sure - a
acceptable-smartphone-30669
07/20/2021, 2:03 PMyeah, theyre awesome - a
ambitious-knife-25690
07/20/2021, 2:06 PM👀 is this akin to jsx/hsx? - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:07 PMpossibly, not 100% up on those - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:08 PMits more so haxeui doesnt use hscript to run code that is in the xml at runtime - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:08 PMinstead it will either a) build class functions vars out of the script or b) build local anon functions - a
acceptable-smartphone-30669
07/20/2021, 2:09 PMoh that changed now? haxeui using hscript to run those snippets is the thing about it that annoyed me the mosts last time i played with it 😛 - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:09 PMwell, its in the process of changing... im going to dump the hscript dependency completely - u
user
07/20/2021, 2:09 PM@ambitious-knife-25690 am trying coconut with haxeui to get hxx, pretty much working atm - a
acceptable-smartphone-30669
07/20/2021, 2:09 PMawesome! - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:10 PMyeah, it never sat right with me either - it felt... ... cheap... but i think it was because my macro understanding abilities were still really weak back then - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:10 PMi also think it was constantly making the excuse to myself that "well, maybe you wanted to run a script that was runtime" - a
acceptable-smartphone-30669
07/20/2021, 2:10 PMyeah. i really dont like inefficient things yknow 😛 and especially when youre parsing it at compile time, you might as well compile those snippets at compile time too - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:11 PMyeah, i think it was just laziness on my part... a "hscript will work fine"... but actually its just really ugly, inefficient and adds another layer of problems - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:14 PMplus with these macro ones you can do pretty cool stuff - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:15 PMlike, since the functions become class level functions (assuming you are using a class building macro) you could feasibly build up a whole custom component class from xml (including overriding haxeui functions) - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:15 PMand it would function 100% as if you wrote it all in haxe... which is nifty - u
user
07/20/2021, 2:15 PMOr use coconut + haxeui and actually write it 100% in haxe :D - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:16 PMhonestly, i really hate the lack of seperation between xml and code - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:16 PMbut the observability of coconut is enticing 🙂 - u
user
07/20/2021, 2:16 PMimo what's worse than having xml (ui declaration) in code is having code in xml - a
ambitious-knife-25690
07/20/2021, 2:17 PMhehe - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:17 PMyeah, i mean, they are both bad... i certainly wouldnt advocate for either... - u
user
07/20/2021, 2:17 PMThough I did build something that does exactly that for work 😆 - b
bright-gpu-74537
07/20/2021, 2:17 PM"you could feasibly build up a whole custom component class from xml" - its certainly not something i would ever do