Inspired by: https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1686188323164028928
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A stick figure pondering: “Hm. If only there was a platform for my desktop application”
The stick figure stepping over many native GUIs to pick up Google Chromium.
The stick figure: “Ah! Here we go!”
I LOVE ELECTRUM!! I WANT EVERY APPLICATION TO BE A CHROMIUM INSTANCE AND EAT HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF MB OF RAM!!!
I HATE ELECTRON AND CHROMIUM EMBEDDED FRAMEWORK
A lot of people have made a website before, so it makes sense that’s the first choice for them.
That being said, if I was to make a simple desktop app tomorrow, which GUI would you recommend me?
Its hard to answer without knowing what your app needs to do.
For a generic crossplatform program, I would say QT or GTK when programming in C/++.
Also depends on the language being used. Even if it’s javascript, you could use something like Tauri or Neutralino, which can also make an executable bundle which uses the OS’s native HTML renderer, no bundled chromium needed.
Some languages + recommended graphical frameworks:
- FreePascal + Lazarus
- Dart + Flutter
- Go + Fyne
- Lua + LOVE2D (game engine, but can work fine for most cases)
Which programming language will you use?
this is a hypothetical scenario but let’s just say rust
nitter still works after the api chnages?
What’s your opinion on Tauri?
Had to install the feed the beast app to play their stupid modpacks. It was ugly, had ads taking up a quarter of the screen at any time, and it used up a gig of RAM at idle.
On top of that, the launcher would run while the game was running, meaning you had a shitty electron app always running alongside the RAM hoarder that is minecraft.
Really just wish they’d let me install their packs on prism, a far superior qt-based launcher that uses my system’s theme.
