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EllieEffingMae | 4 years ago

Could you expand on this more? I don't know a lot about GUI programming, but I'd be interested in learning what the current failings are within the desktop space.

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AussieWog93|4 years ago

Specifically for Linux, there is no ubiquitous standard with decent performance and a predictable look such as win32 or Cocoa.

Instead, developers rely on toolkits such as Qt or GTK to ensure compatibility, which are usually either bloated or ugly.

lavabiopsy|4 years ago

That's true for "Linux", but "Linux" on its own is not a desktop OS. If you target KDE then Qt is the ubiquitous standard with decent performance and a predictable look, same goes for GNOME with GTK. Both of them I would say are less "bloated" than win32 or cocoa at this point. And I don't have any comment on whether it's "ugly" or not :)

jcelerier|4 years ago

If you think that Qt is more bloated than Cocoa I don't know what to say. That objc runtime is so heavy and slow, good luck making it run on microcontrollers