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movq
www.uninformativ.de
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There are no really good GUI toolkits for Linux, are there?

They’re either slow (like GTK4, Qt6), don’t support Wayland (like Tk), and/or unmaintained (like GTK2 and many others).
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq What about more modern alternatives based on GLFW?
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Such as? 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq What about gioui?
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Hmm, I’ll have to take a look. Appears to be Go only, doesn’t it?

I’m not quite sold yet on the idea of “immediate mode” GUIs. 🤔
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Java/Swing!
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse Can’t tell if serious or not – because I’m actually considering this. 😅
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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(… won’t be fast, either, though …)
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Don't you worry, this was meant as a joke. :-D

There was a time when I thought that Swing was actually really good. But having done some Qt/KDE later, I realized how much better that was. That were the late KDE 3 and early KDE 4 days, though. Not sure how it is today. But back then it felt Trolltech and the KDE folks put a hell lot more thought into their stuff. I was pleasantly surprised how natural it appeared and all the bits played together. Sure, there were the odd ends, but the overall design was a lot better in my opinion.

To be fair, I never used it from C++, always the Python bindings, which were considerably more comfortable (just alone the possibility to specify most attributes right away as kwargs in the constructor instead of calling tons of setters). And QtJambi, the Java binding, was also relatively nice. I never did a real project though, just played around with the latter.
movq
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@lyse Hmmmmmmmmmmmm … guess I should take a look at Qt. 🤔 That’s the one popular toolkit that I’ve never really tried for some reason. I really don’t like C++ (might as well use Rust), so I’ll also use Python.