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How about gtk?

• talldayo 2y ago
  I love GTK, but compiling it on non-native platforms is torture. If you're lucky enough to get a build environment working, compilation can take hours just to yield a horribly buggy and slow GUI. I really wish GTK worked better cross-platform, but I mostly use it for Linux-only stuff. It's not humane to make Windows and Mac users suffer through it, unfortunately.
  • ho_schi 2y ago
    MSYS2. And copy over prebuilt dependencies. And while we say C++, I suggest always to use Meson as build tool. Which allows you to use WrapDB (built in dependency-manager) aside from available native libraries and own local sources. MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org https://www.msys2.org Meson: https://mesonbuild.com https://mesonbuild.com The problem about Windows is, that Microsoft adds new APIs repeatingly and doesn’t care much about the previous ones. While on Linux we’ve Gtk1, Gtk2, Gtk3 and Gtk4. And while people complain about deprecations and changes they actually mean „API changes require work to use the new major. But these people keep maintaining it. And provide upgrade paths to enhanced versions? I’m in!“. HiDPI, Wayland, new Widgets, new renderers and a scene-graph. PS: If you need to keep it small and simple and address professional (power) users I suggest a TUI with the venerable ncurses. Or notcurses. Notcurses: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses. Demo of Ncurses (For the lulz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY
  • tored 2y ago
    Tested Geany Editor on Windows the other day, it uses GTK, great editor but horribly slow on Windows, just scrolling a small file (less than 100 lines) was sluggish.
• redox99 2y ago
  GTK programs look very out of place in Windows.