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What counts as a GUI toolkit? Microsoft has like a half dozen dead or deprecated attempts at GUI frameworks, unless you're using a different definition.
by gaganyaan 3y ago
What counts as a GUI toolkit? Microsoft has like a half dozen dead or deprecated attempts at GUI frameworks, unless you're using a different definition.
- simoncion 3y ago> Microsoft has like a half dozen dead or deprecated attempts at GUI frameworks... In addition to the major ones that are supported in X11 / Wayland!
- bsder 3y agoPick one. And note that all of those GUI toolkits still work on Windows 11, AFAICT. Touch screens work even on old VB6 programs, for example. Try that on Linux and watch the tears flow. This is my point. Everything is locked together and tested together. The OS, the toolkit, the input mechanism, the video driver, etc. all get developed together and don't need 4 layers of ill-defined abstraction between them.