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It would be really nice if there was a shared widget API that would work for the major operating systems. If most of simple app could work on Windows, OSX, may
by mjevans 5y ago
It would be really nice if there was a shared widget API that would work for the major operating systems. If most of simple app could work on Windows, OSX, maybe mobile (Android / iOS) and Linux / BSD.
Something that was mostly native for all of them.
Currently the only alternative to Electron that is similar is a program that hosts a local webserver and the local browser is pointed at it, but that's a second class experience.
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- torstenvl 5y agoI think wxWidgets fills this role pretty nicely. It's what, e.g., Audacity and FileZilla use.
- mjevans 5y agoMy biggest criticism is more that the widgets library really should already _be_ there, and ideally updated automatically, on a client's system. Hello World (GUI) shouldn't be a 50MB deliverable. If I'm providing someone with a toaster I shouldn't have to ship a whole mobile home. Nor should that end user need to park 300 mobile homes on their hard disk. There are other criticisms about wxW in specific linked from the wikipedia page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets#Criticism Dolphin's is illustrative of the pain involved in using that widget set. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/06/03/dolphin-progress-report-may-2017/#qt-ie-patootie https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/06/03/dolphin-progress-rep...