What is the best way to program a GUI that is cross-platform?
Should I go for python and pyqt5 or javascript with node and electron or something else?
What is the best way to program a GUI that is cross-platform?
Liam Gutierrez
Zachary Thompson
Web app
Thomas Reed
POSIX compliant C, nigger
Noah Williams
If you are a 3rd worlder javascripter just use electron
Eli Thomas
tcl
Dylan Howard
bump
Christopher Wilson
Try Qt!
Josiah Rodriguez
Anything that compiles to binary
Michael Bailey
>POSIX compliant
none of the popular modern OSes does it
Noah Hall
Use a crossplatform graphics library and draw your own gui.
Easton Brown
java swing
Gabriel Morgan
Henry Morgan
JavaFX
Wyatt Morris
>java
No java application I've ever used has not been laggy
Brody Martin
by not having a gui.
Nathan Campbell
Electron.
Ethan Baker
png + buttons
Jack Robinson
ncurses
Alexander Sanchez
Lazarus
Levi Barnes
JavaFX is absolute dogshit. Swing is ancient, legacy, and has all the questionable design that comes with that. In some cosmic irony, Java is actually terrible at cross-platform GUI.
Asher Murphy
Why are Java GUIs so slow and memory hogging?
Colton Carter
Update to a computer in the last 15 years then
Isaac Wilson
Get Embarcadero C++ Builder, user.
Charles Wood
I won't speak too much of JavaFX on a performance level since I've never been able to use it too deeply, but I will say (and this is what prevents me from ever using it) that it refuses to implement any level of developer-accessible OpenGL (or any other hardware acceleration) integration because- and I quote- "JavaFX might be using OpenGL in the background, so it might run into conflicts." Yeah, because two hardware accelerated contexts have EVER existed on the PC environment. So I'm sure it's an absolute travesty in terms of background implementation.
As for Swing, it's certainly capable of making fast and crisp GUI's, but it requires FAR too esoteric knowledge because the whole thing is practically a Rube Goldberg machine. With a lot of tweaking and manual work I was able to make a very clean Swing GUI but the second I started adding stuff onto it some stupid Toolkit thing would start adding references to everything and then nothing would ever get garbage collected. It generally was just way too hands-on.
James Cox
I'd stick with python.
Asher Butler
Don't bother. Just write the GUI for Windows, give the gentoo users a command line tool, and the macfags are too busy snorting lattes and complaining about digital niggerface to use your software.
Jaxson Williams
I think this might be the most sane answer here. Just use WPF and call it a day.
Kevin Hall
It honestly bothers me how the only decent GUI libraries seem to be written for Web applications. But I guess that's just blowing dust in the wind.
Luke Moore
C and GTK+
Simple and straightforward.
Jayden Smith
bump
Hunter Brooks
which gui libraries?
Gabriel Hughes
Python + qt is god tier. But I recommend using qtpy API since it allows you to trivially switch between pyside/pyqt4/pyqt5.
Kayden King
does they have free 64 bit version?
Cooper Brooks
Isn't JavaFX better?
Cameron Parker
Any of these, OP.