https://wiki.mudlet.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mudlet%3ARepository_Technical_Vision 2026-07-16T23:35:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.0 https://wiki.mudlet.org/index.php?title=Mudlet:Repository_Technical_Vision&diff=16309&oldid=prev 2021-03-13T18:12:17Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:12, 13 March 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l35" >Line 35:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 35:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because while the web in itself is great at backwards compatibility, frontend stacks are not.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Because while the web in itself is great at backwards compatibility, frontend stacks are not.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thanks for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">listening</del>, now [https://github.com/Mudlet/mudlet-package-repo let&#039;s go and build].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thanks for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reading</ins>, now [https://github.com/Mudlet/mudlet-package-repo let&#039;s go and build].</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;= Technical vision for Mudlet package repo = == Our constraints == We&#039;re a team of developers who is developing a desktop-based, cross platform application using modern C++...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>= Technical vision for Mudlet package repo =<br /> <br /> == Our constraints ==<br /> <br /> We&#039;re a team of developers who is developing a desktop-based, cross platform application using modern C++ and Lua. Given our focus on the desktop, web technologies aren&#039;t second nature to us.<br /> <br /> We build things to last, because we&#039;re a volunteer team: we can&#039;t afford to be throwing everything away and re-writing it every 2-3 years.<br /> <br /> We build Mudlet to be fast. Performance is a defining quality of Mudlet. We can&#039;t afford to use a technology that requires you to be a deep expert in it to produce a performant outcome.<br /> <br /> We&#039;re not designers. We do our best, but amazing design doesn&#039;t come natural to us.<br /> <br /> Given these constraints, neither popular nor niche web frontend stacks of 2021 are a good fit for our usecase.<br /> <br /> == Our solution ==<br /> <br /> === Use the tech we know ===<br /> <br /> Lua is a very familiar technology to all of us. For this reason we&#039;ve chosen [https://leafo.net/lapis/ Lapis], a Lua development framework based on the battle-proven OpenResty platform, which in itself is nginx+Lua.<br /> <br /> === Bring it back to the basics ===<br /> <br /> HTML5 is here and it works great across all browsers. It&#039;s also what everyone is most familiar with. By sticking to the basics, we&#039;ll be making our project more accessible to developers.<br /> <br /> === Bootstrap+jQuery ===<br /> <br /> It&#039;s not the latest shiny toy - and that&#039;s great for us. We need proven technology that is modern, yet built to stay.<br /> <br /> [https://getbootstrap.com/ Bootstrap] also comes with a slew of themes that we can use out of the box - great building blocks to assemble a good-looking result with.<br /> <br /> == Why this differs from Mudlet on desktop ==<br /> <br /> We use the latest edition of C++17 and the latest Qt available. Why not follow the same philosophy on the web as well?<br /> <br /> Because while the web in itself is great at backwards compatibility, frontend stacks are not.<br /> <br /> Thanks for listening, now [https://github.com/Mudlet/mudlet-package-repo let&#039;s go and build].</div>

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