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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!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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/++.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which programming language will you use?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

this is a hypothetical scenario but let's just say rust