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I think AI coding has made these "we dumb down a real UI framework for you" libraries obsolete. Anyone can get a GTK or QT app up and running now. This isn't
by ltbarcly3 5mo ago
I think AI coding has made these "we dumb down a real UI framework for you" libraries obsolete. Anyone can get a GTK or QT app up and running now. This isn't a criticism, they were very useful to build GUIs in the past, but now they are just obsolete and more likely to introduce bugs or limitations you can't work around than to help much.
- huflungdung 5mo ago[dead]
- marshray 5mo agoIs this a new form of gatekeeping? I.e., "too human-friendly to survive in the presence of The Great AI™". If so, where does that lead us?
- hereme888 5mo agoThat's an aggressively negative over-interpretation of OP. Clearly not what was meant.
- ltbarcly3 5mo agoThese libraries are not more human friendly. Humans can write GTK or win32 or QT or Cocoa code just fine. GUI frameworks are very complex and often have very in depth setup code that is required. It requires a huge investment to get an app up and running with a GUI framework, and AI makes setting that up approachable when it was a real challenge before. Have you ever written GUI code using one of the big GUI frameworks?
- PapstJL4U 5mo agoI, not the previous writer, have and PSG did exactly this. It made writting compact GUIs for smaller projects manageable without going into the deeps of GTK, win32 or QT. I tried a bunch of Frameworks and some were easier (PSG, Kivi) and others much harder.
- sinpif 5mo agoTaken to an extreme, what's stopping us from going back to C? The security issues will be found and resolved, performance will be great and it will compile on all platforms that ever existed.