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This. Over the years I've seen so many cool projects aiming to ease native desktop UI development, but most became unmaintained at some point, for what I am gue
by dkh 3y ago
This. Over the years I've seen so many cool projects aiming to ease native desktop UI development, but most became unmaintained at some point, for what I am guessing is due to the difficulty and complexity associated with actually making this work in practice. It is less sexy, but a solid language binding to the existing libraries is likely the more practical and maintainable way to go
- MBCook 3y agoAfter so many years of seeing cross platform stuff come and go I can’t help but think it can’t be done well enough for mass adoption. It just has too many gotchas that make things feel out of place on every platform in different ways. At least outside my first demo app territory. The only thing that really seems to be succeeding is web stuff like Electron, which usually throws the baby out with the bathwater and does its own thing of emulating the web (itself, basically) instead of trying to feel perfectly native.
- jcelerier 3y agoIdk I've been developing with Qt for idk, 15 years now, it's stable and keeps chugging along with constant improvements. And is used in more than enough mass-adopted apps, e.g. Telegram