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The question is why would you want something like that? Native is meaningless on non-Apple platforms. For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern nativ

The question is why would you want something like that? Native is meaningless on non-Apple platforms. For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern native Windows app, because it uses Win32. Gtk is "best viewed on" a Gtk-based Linux desktop. Qt Widgets, much like wx, emulates the LAF of Win32, so doesn't look correct any more on Windows. Qt Quick is a modern hardware-accelerated UI toolkit, but that's not a unique thing any more.

jcelerier 4y ago
> For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern native Windows app, because it uses Win32. idk, whenever I have to use win32 and I see some app which uses the win32 widgets i'm like, "finally some good software"
rstat1 4y ago
I would certainly prefer properly written native software to web-based junk pretending to be native.
pdntspa 4y ago
I guess you can consider me a fan of WinForms. Besides, you can change the background color and add a stupid amount of padding to everything and voila, you now have "modern". Hell I used to have something for C# that did exactly that and made WinForms apps look like they were made for Windows 10. It was pretty cool, ngl I've been tinkering with wxPython since I can't get pygobject to work in Python 3 in Windows. It really isn't that bad, certainly not nearly as weird as trying to wrap my head around folks' awful (are they ever not?) React codebases and this moronic idea that everything has to bundle Chromium Also you really can't beat an instantaneous cold startup time. It's the tits
bmitc 4y ago
Why is anything based on Win32 not native on Windows? As far as I know, it's the only way to create a window on Windows.
nicoburns 4y ago
> The question is why would you want something like that? Simple. You want to be able to make cross-platform UIs that are more performant, less resource-intensive, and more extensible than electron apps.
bakugo 4y ago
> The question is why would you want something like that? Some of us want stable software that feels fast and responsive and doesn't lag on high-end machines while using 2GB of RAM despite being extremely simple

jcelerier 4y ago

> For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern native Windows app, because it uses Win32. idk, whenever I have to use win32 and I see some app which uses the win32 widgets i'm like, "finally some good software"

rstat1 4y ago

I would certainly prefer properly written native software to web-based junk pretending to be native.

pdntspa 4y ago

I guess you can consider me a fan of WinForms. Besides, you can change the background color and add a stupid amount of padding to everything and voila, you now have "modern". Hell I used to have something for C# that did exactly that and made WinForms apps look like they were made for Windows 10. It was pretty cool, ngl I've been tinkering with wxPython since I can't get pygobject to work in Python 3 in Windows. It really isn't that bad, certainly not nearly as weird as trying to wrap my head around folks' awful (are they ever not?) React codebases and this moronic idea that everything has to bundle Chromium Also you really can't beat an instantaneous cold startup time. It's the tits

bmitc 4y ago

Why is anything based on Win32 not native on Windows? As far as I know, it's the only way to create a window on Windows.

nicoburns 4y ago

> The question is why would you want something like that? Simple. You want to be able to make cross-platform UIs that are more performant, less resource-intensive, and more extensible than electron apps.

bakugo 4y ago

> The question is why would you want something like that? Some of us want stable software that feels fast and responsive and doesn't lag on high-end machines while using 2GB of RAM despite being extremely simple