CowRepresentative820 t1_jby2utn wrote on March 12, 2023 at 4:46 PM

Reply to comment by Mapmaker51 in Spotify's redesign isn't going down well - why are so many apps going for the same look? by dfgooner

React itself has nothing to do with theming. Also, in larger companies, design and development are usually spread across separate teams. The "lazy programmers" usually don't actually decide what the UI will look like. To be honest, your comments feel very uninformed.

Mapmaker51 t1_jby3yck wrote on March 12, 2023 at 4:54 PM

Right, and Java has nothing to do with most Java desktop applications looking the same and win32 programs also had nothing to do with them having around the same interface, after all they're all just meant to be frameworks to build a program on right? what should they have anything to do with the apps themselves looking a certain similar way with each other

CowRepresentative820 t1_jby730n wrote on March 12, 2023 at 5:16 PM

You specifically mentioned React, which is what I'm responding to, but yes, using UI frameworks like JavaFX, Win32, GTK will cause your apps to look a specific way. However, while React itself may be a UI framework, in the web world, styling is done through CSS. It is not React's concern.

If you know of the UI framework that all these companies are using to achieve similar layouts, I'd be very interested in seeing what specifically that is.

Also your not wrong about browsers looking the same, but that's not out of laziness (not sure if that was implied). These days browsers are so complicated that there probably won't every be a new browser developed. It's just Chrome and Firefox, which is a little bit scary IMO.