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Why is it that Perl never had strong usage in the GUI world? Seems like the object oriented nature of GTK and Qt, and all just generally would work well with Pe
by calvinmorrison 4y ago
Why is it that Perl never had strong usage in the GUI world? Seems like the object oriented nature of GTK and Qt, and all just generally would work well with Perl.
Is it that TCL/TK sort of filled that niche for rapid prototyping and development 10-15 years ago?
- mhd 4y agoPerl actually had a pretty good UI story way back when. Perl/Tk always was well documented and Perl's syntax works quite well with the original Tcl-ish/Shell style. Note that GIT's default GUI parts are written in exactly that. Tk then hit a bit of a limit when it came to common widgets, and so got less popular. Perl also had a good implementation of Win32, if I remember correctly. These days, both Perl and GUIs are on a steady decline, so there's not much moving in that space. Gmusicbrowser[1] is written in Perl/Gtk, if I remember correctly. [1]:https://gmusicbrowser.org/ https://gmusicbrowser.org/