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I'd love to see a "Back to the Future" desktop UI toolkit that has roughly the capabilities of AppKit circa 2003 but in a modern language, clean unified API, cr

by pavlov 5y ago

I'd love to see a "Back to the Future" desktop UI toolkit that has roughly the capabilities of AppKit circa 2003 but in a modern language, clean unified API, cross-platform, with seamless native UI integration, and of course not carrying hundreds of megabytes of Chromium gunk in each app like Electron does.

kitsunesoba 5y ago
That would be wonderful. AppKit is the closest to perfect I've found in desktop UI frameworks. If it took some of the improvements found in UIKit and was cross platform I'd never use anything else.
SemanticStrengh 5y ago
not carrying hundreds of megabytes of Chromium gunk in each app like Electron does. this problem has been solved multiple times, see e.g. Tauri