• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    This is my hope. There are so many cross-platform GUI toolkits out there that are orders of magnitude more efficient than electron and nobody uses them. It’s not like GTK and Qt are difficult to learn. In fact, I find them easier to wrap my head around than a lot of the JS nonsense out there.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 hour ago

      I have bad memories of apps built in qt but that was decades ago, and my objection is visual.

      JavaScript, despite any popularity, is a trash language for an application that runs outside of a browser