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This is really cool. It's great to see someone pushing for good desktop applications. I'm not an electron hater, but I don't love it either, and I'm happy to se

• webmobdev 5y ago
  Free and open source: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php Other 30+ cross-platform GUI toolkits / frameworks: https://www.slant.co/topics/983/~best-cross-platform-gui-toolkits https://www.slant.co/topics/983/~best-cross-platform-gui-too...
  • pkphilip 5y ago
    Sadly Lazarus and Delphi don't get the attention they deserve. Writing even a sophisticated app in either of these platforms is a pleasure.
    • dvdkon 5y ago
      Maybe it's a question of personal taste, but Pascal (in any of its newer forms) isn't a langauge I like working with. Up-front variable declaration, verbose flow control, next to no support for functional programming... LCL is nice, I especially like how small the result is, but in the last ~30 years, programming language design has progressed a lot and Pascal just seems archaic, and not in a good way. Modern PL design isn't just about "syntax sugar" as the FreePascal community would have you believe.
      • pkphilip 5y ago
        Yes, it does come down to personal taste and also programming style. Not everyone wants or needs functional programming.