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So I have used wxWidgets in the past with the help of python bindings and enjoyed using it and my end product. I hear electron[1] is picking up these days for c

• MaxLeiter 10y ago
  An electron app ships with chromium; major unnecessary bloat. Check out electron file sizes.
• laumars 10y ago
  Only from an end user perspective and frankly I hate it. It has all the size and performance problems complained about in that article but without the benefit of native widgets. And frankly if I wanted to run a web app on my desktop then I'd rather run it in my preferred browser. I know I'm getting old (in IT terms) and grumpy but I'm unconvinced our current frontend web stack are the right tools for modern web development; albeit it's what we're stuck with. So I'm even less convinced that it's the right stack for "native" desktop applications.
  • thomastjeffery 10y ago
    > It has all the size and performance problems complained about in that article Complaining about electron being bloated now is just like complaining​ about gtk being bloated back in the 90s.
    • laumars 10y ago
      To be honest I've never been a massive fan of GTK either. Then or now. Though at least I can sympathise a little more with why GTK existed and at least GTK is native so still had better comparable performance (ie performed better on average hardware of that era than electron performs on average hardware of this current era).