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Wow! A race to the bottom of the memory pool. Electron is several things which HN guidelines probably won't allow me to describe here. I avoid it whenever I ca
by interfixus 9y ago
Wow! A race to the bottom of the memory pool.
Electron is several things which HN guidelines probably won't allow me to describe here. I avoid it whenever I can.
- andrepd 9y agoThat's all very true, but can you point to an alternative? If you were a small team with few resources, and you wanted to ship a cross-platform desktop app, what would you choose?
- interfixus 9y agoThere ar plenty of portable toolkits out there. Gtk, Qt, WxWidgets, Fltk, Tk, several others, with bindings to more or less any language you may care to think of. And Lazarus/FreePascal, of course. You may even embed some web-engine. It doesn't have to involve obscene amounts of megabytes and the selling of your soul to the Google monster.
- 72deluxe 9y agoI would choose wxWidgets personally. Easy to build the libraries, plenty of samples. Some bugs here and there but paired with a tool to layout UIs (like wxFormBuilder), you can get a lot done.