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> an easy way That's the key phrase, and it means easy way for front end web devs, those who have forced the entire toolchain to dance to Javascript's tune bec
by brigandish 5y ago
> an easy way
That's the key phrase, and it means easy way for front end web devs, those who have forced the entire toolchain to dance to Javascript's tune because everything would be easier if we had one language to rule them all.
- tshaddox 5y agoWhat’s the easy way to build cross-platform GUIs for people who aren’t frontend web devs?
- iforgotpassword 5y agoBuild n native apps, make them look the same and pretend it's cross platform. :-)
- CyberDildonics 5y agoI've seen people say stuff like this before. Do you actually not realize there have been cross platform GUI libraries for the last thirty years?
- brigandish 5y agoThere are plenty of mature cross platform GUI frameworks to choose from, they're not going to go away. Pick one, and like any other framework, if you stick with it you will soon find it easier than using something else. Even Zig has Qt bindings[1] and that's still enough of a hot young thing to regularly reach HN's front page, so it's likely that other popular languages that are older have bindings, no need to devolve to using something JS devs crave. There's wxWidgets[2] or Shoes (I loved using Shoes, thanks _why!) and many more[3]. [1] https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_wxWidgets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits