There's a big gap today with how builders like Webflow don't really want you to write code, where imo, they (at least Webflow) could've worked w the idea of being a VDE over a low-code builder. Maybe wasn't as viable pre-LLM, but today an inline editor like Cursor within a visual builder, vv viable. - ThreadSky

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austinjxseph.bsky.social • 11 days ago

There's a big gap today with how builders like Webflow don't really want you to write code, where imo, they (at least Webflow) could've worked w the idea of being a VDE over a low-code builder. Maybe wasn't as viable pre-LLM, but today an inline editor like Cursor within a visual builder, vv viable.

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austinjxseph.bsky.social•11 days ago

And I have a feeling that exact gap is what's Lovable's trying to get their hands on with the 'visual edits' feature that came out this week.

trysound.io•11 days ago

We are actually building webstudio as straightforward UI for code. So many things are generated almost 1:1. For example css variables work exactly like in css and they are changed and accessed from style panel which basically a css editor.

trysound.io•11 days ago

Though some things like tokens do not exist in css. For now.
There is a css mixins proposal which is the same as tokens in webstudio.
https://css.oddbird.net/sasslike/mixins-functions/

austinjxseph.bsky.social•11 days ago

Webstudio’s done such a good job with a lot of it so I really trust the vision and the roadmap with this one. One thing the team could get expand a lot on is the UX whilst using custom code, like syntax highlights, inline class and variable suggestions, sitewide script files, etc.

austinjxseph.bsky.social•11 days ago

There’s too much friction using a code file in builders like Webflow atm. Ofc it’s easier said than done haha.

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