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C++ needs something. It's a bit embarrassing when someone used to the standard library from most other languages asks "How do I draw this picture of a cat" or
by jbb555 13y ago
C++ needs something.
It's a bit embarrassing when someone used to the standard library from most other languages asks "How do I draw this picture of a cat" or "how do I print 'Hello World!' in red in a welcoming font" and you have to say, erm, well.. there is nothing in c++ for that. Maybe you can find a platform dependent library that will work for you.
It doesn't need a library to do everything, but something that lets you draw and write text to a window seems like something that should be available on every platform that can support it.
- ahomescu1 13y ago"Most other languages" seems like an exaggeration. I don't think you can do any of the things you list easily in Python, PHP (you wouldn't even want to in PHP), JavaScript or Haskell.
- hendzen 13y agoPython includes Tkinter for GUI programming. That said, Tkinter is pretty crappy compared to PyQt.
- Daishiman 13y agoThe number of users of Tkinter in Python is so low that I would seriously question its utility in the standard library. IDLE is the only piece of software that I know of that targets it, and it's quite underwhelming.
- shurcooL 13y agoIt is available in the form of cross platform libraries like GLFW.