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Also, GUI toolkits were never fun or easy to use in desktop development. I've used MFC, wx and Qt with C++, Forms and WPF with C# and Qt with Python. All of tho
by zwieback 9y ago
Also, GUI toolkits were never fun or easy to use in desktop development. I've used MFC, wx and Qt with C++, Forms and WPF with C# and Qt with Python. All of those had their challenges so browser-based GUIs don't seem so bad as an alternative. Not a fan of JS but modern toolkits are almost at a point where they hide enough of the ugliness.
- markroseman 9y agoNever? Dude, Tk back in the day! Compared with all the raw X11 predecessors, it was a revelation for Unix GUI's.
- zwieback 9y agoTrue - Tk was quite the step up back then. I still use it every day when I fire up gitk or git gui.
- protomyth 9y agoAlso, GUI toolkits were never fun or easy to use in desktop development. NeXTSTEP was fun. Frankly, its still easier to develop for OPENSTEP 4.x then the web. VB when it first came out was amazing and all the VBX control you could buy were amazing. Heck, even the Newton was a lot cleaner to build a UI which still amazes me since Javascript should have been capable of the same type of prototype-based interface.