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Show HN: TFStudio – open-source design and optimization for optical thin films
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aai2k
5 hours ago
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penkovsky
an hour ago
GUIs are hard. I wonder how much time did you invest in the graphical user interface. And especially as compared to the rest of the project.
aai2k
8 minutes ago
Roughly half the code is UI. Electron helps a lot here, React keeps all the windows in sync, Plotly handles the plots. Worth the time, in my view for engineering software the whole point is making the actual engineering faster