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I don't see the point of FyneDesk; I'm sure that a clever person could reproduce this environment with FVWM.
by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I don't see the point of FyneDesk; I'm sure that a clever person could reproduce this environment with FVWM.
- pjmlp 5y agoYeah, but then it wouldn't be with Go.
- throwawayy293 5y agopoint being? this Go brigading is annoying
- pjmlp 5y agoAny language that helps to reduce C's status quo is welcomed, Go, Checked C or whatever. One piece at a time.
- andydotxyz 5y agoYeah. Fyne picked Go because it is a great language for building a GUI - not because we were Go developers. Fyne existed before the founders knew any Go :) Mostly coding window managers and desktop environment in C/C++ is so painful that you can see why it stagnated 20 years ago...
- eigengrau5150 5y agoIs that really a problem with C/C++ or an issue with the X Window System?
- andydotxyz 5y agoPersonally I think both. Yes the X11 APIs are horrible to work with - but decent code can abstract that away so the app APIs are sane. Doing that was easy with Go, but doing the same with C seems to end up passing around `void*` everywhere, so type safety (and a good coding experience) goes out the window.