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I mean, both wxWidgets and Qt are fine, no? GTK 2 and 3 as well (4+ is... meh). There are plenty applications using one of these (often via python bindings). I
by gray_-_wolf 5mo ago
I mean, both wxWidgets and Qt are fine, no? GTK 2 and 3 as well (4+ is... meh). There are plenty applications using one of these (often via python bindings).
I think it is more of a staffing problem. Plenty of people know web development, so you want to use those people for desktop as well. Having desktop be JS (electron) helps a lot with that.
- dpe82 5mo agoA year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.
- maccard 5mo agoWhat is native on Linux?
- Gigachad 5mo agoWhat is native on Windows too. These days the term native app is so confused it's hard to come up with a definition that doesn't include electron.
- maccard 5mo agoThere’s a few options on windows all of which are native. WPF, Winforms and WinUI are all “native”. > These days the term native app is so confused it's hard to come up with a definition that doesn't include electron. Electron is _not_ native.
- dpe82 5mo agoTUIs, apparently. :)
- mghackerlady 5mo agoathena[0], take it or leave it [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets