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Ask HN: What's your favorite framework for making apps (with GUIs) for yourself?

4 points by rajlego 5y ago

I want to start making apps for myself and want to prioritize speed of development. I'm leaning towards xcode/swift since I'd like to develop for mac/iphone/apple watch but it does seem like maybe not a great idea to be locked in eternally to apple. What do you guys prefer?

yuppie_scum 5y ago
I think it’s a dirty word around here, but Electron is popular for a reason..
- pickle-wizard 5y ago
  I've got an idea for a GUI App that I want to run on both Mac and Windows. I've been researching cross platform GUI Frameworks, but Electron seems to be the best option that I've found.
loxias 5y ago
I use Qt. It's nice.
pwg 5y ago
Tk (https://www.tcl.tk/about/ https://www.tcl.tk/about/)
chovybizzass 5y ago
Webview
mikewarot 5y ago
My current favorite is Lazarus/Free Pascal
blodkorv 5y ago
C# winforms. There is nothing better if you ask me
namaljayathunga 5y ago
Even EloctronJS is more popular, I am using [NWJS](https://nwjs.io/ https://nwjs.io/) because it is simple and support hiding code (compile code). However, I recently found a solution to hide code in the Electron app ([Bytenote](https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/n155qh/compile_your_js_code_new_bytenode_support_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/n155qh/compile_...))