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It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that

by divan 1y ago

It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that was never designed properly, let alone for modern UI apps. Flutter would be much better choice for such a desktop app, for example.

correa_brian 1y ago
How so?
_bent 1y ago
you still can't have multiple windows with flutter, which disqualifies it for building desktop apps.
- Klonoar 1y ago
  There is an unfortunate increasing trend to build desktop apps that only live in one window, so it's not really a "disqualification" - perhaps more a "complication".
- james2doyle 1y ago
  True. But this is actively being worked on by Canonical: https://ubuntu.com/blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop https://ubuntu.com/blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop
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- divan 1y ago
  How exactly is it a problem for the typical desktop app?
hombre_fatal 1y ago
On the other hand, they shipped, proved the product, and got their first paying customers with a web stack. And the top HN comment thread is people talking about the downsides of Tauri cross-platform. It's all trade-offs, unfortunately.
zerr 1y ago
wxWidgets or QtWidgets if you want a proper desktop GUI app.
- johnisgood 1y ago
  Heck, Tcl/Tk could work as well.
- iknowstuff 1y ago
  that's funny, most of the time I don't even want to USE apps written in those because they're dated and janky as hell, must less write in them
- flykespice 1y ago
  My problem with wxWidgets was I kinda wish its API was more elegant There were also some subtle issues like the child windows leaking a lot of memory in the GTK implementations when idle (something like spamming gobjects). I wouldn't touch Qt even with a ten foot pole, too much bloated for me.
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It's sad to witness how much suffering developers are ready to endure (and make their users suffer) just not to part ways with HTML/CSS/JS stack. The stack that

by divan 1y ago

correa_brian 1y ago
How so?
_bent 1y ago
you still can't have multiple windows with flutter, which disqualifies it for building desktop apps.
- Klonoar 1y ago
  There is an unfortunate increasing trend to build desktop apps that only live in one window, so it's not really a "disqualification" - perhaps more a "complication".
- james2doyle 1y ago
  True. But this is actively being worked on by Canonical: https://ubuntu.com/blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop https://ubuntu.com/blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop
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- divan 1y ago
  How exactly is it a problem for the typical desktop app?
hombre_fatal 1y ago
On the other hand, they shipped, proved the product, and got their first paying customers with a web stack. And the top HN comment thread is people talking about the downsides of Tauri cross-platform. It's all trade-offs, unfortunately.
zerr 1y ago
wxWidgets or QtWidgets if you want a proper desktop GUI app.
- johnisgood 1y ago
  Heck, Tcl/Tk could work as well.
- iknowstuff 1y ago
  that's funny, most of the time I don't even want to USE apps written in those because they're dated and janky as hell, must less write in them
- flykespice 1y ago
  My problem with wxWidgets was I kinda wish its API was more elegant There were also some subtle issues like the child windows leaking a lot of memory in the GTK implementations when idle (something like spamming gobjects). I wouldn't touch Qt even with a ten foot pole, too much bloated for me.
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