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Sadly, the screenshots on that page seem to have been last updated when Windows XP was still current (which was 10+ years ago) They're also not HiDPI/Retina, a
by TheCoreh 9y ago
Sadly, the screenshots on that page seem to have been last updated when Windows XP was still current (which was 10+ years ago)
They're also not HiDPI/Retina, and the whole website design seems to be stuck in the mid-2000s, too. Somehow mobile and web developers got aboard all the new design and interaction trends, but Desktop GUI frameworks seem to be all stuck 10 years behind.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably because of a lack of capital investment in desktop software.
And yet a lot of people don't understand why everyone is using Electron for desktop apps these days.
- catach 9y agoIt's a rare mobile or web framework that's even ten years old.
- yeukhon 9y agoIndeed this is a very very old library and wx has existed for a long time. I think many of the existing GUI have been ported to or started out with Qt. I did a project using WxPython before, while it was much more pleasant than Qt (it was around 2011), the GUI felt really old. After that, I switched to Qt for another project due to the size of community support and the features available in Qt. Either way, at least in my experience, I had to look up the C++ documentation because the Python binding documentation was never complete.
- ptx 9y ago> Somehow mobile and web developers got aboard all the new design and interaction trends Because the new design trends are all about how to adapt to the limitations (and possibilities) of mobile and web. For desktop applications these mobile-first designs don't work very well (see Windows 8) and we already had long-established design patterns that do.