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The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic. Visual Basic hasn't really existed for decades.
by otabdeveloper 11y ago
The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic.
Visual Basic hasn't really existed for decades.
- richardwhiuk 11y agoVB.NET is still a thing isn't it?
- AndyKelley 11y agoYeah but why lock in with Microsoft when you can have a cross platform app at the same abstraction and difficulty level?
- hnbroseph 11y agodepends on whether the additional platforms are trivially ignorable or not.
- copperx 11y agoThere's nothing lazy about C++ plus Qt. Perhaps you meant C plus GTK+?
- derefr 11y agoComing from a web-dev background, it feels like the "really lazy desktop app" solution of the day is Node-Webkit/Electron. Everything else requires multi-platform testing.
- bubuga 11y ago> The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic. Qt has nothing to do with laziness. It's simply a well thought-out GUI toolkit which looks good and doesn't require tons of boilerplate code to get a hello world app to work. Nowadays, if other GUI toolkits aren't as user-friendly as Qt, someone has dropped the ball.