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If they use native widgets, they usually look really bad If they just “imitate” look and feel, they usually fall very short of the real thing Either way, it’s
by tonsky 2y ago
If they use native widgets, they usually look really bad
If they just “imitate” look and feel, they usually fall very short of the real thing
Either way, it’s bad experience for the end user
- cess11 2y agoI don't know, I think the Racket GUI toolkit and JavaFX work fine for building cross platform standalone applications.
- tonsky 2y agoThat’s two perfect examples! Racket seems to try to use native widgets, and looks horrible as a result, at least on macOS JavaFX uses the same approach as Humble UI: they draw all the widgets themselves and have custom cross-platform look and feel. We aim to be better quality version of JavaFX