@mathew @vertigo Yeah, my understanding is that the...

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@mathew @vertigo Yeah, my understanding is that the choosing a language to build a new platform on would be the easy part. There's lots to choose from!

There's APIs that need adesigning...

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Right, it's easy to deliver native code cross platform nowadays, using (at least) Go, Rust and Zig and possibly other options like Kotlin. Putting a cross-platform native GUI on any of those is painful in the extreme.

10 Mar 2021 at 19:53 | Open on mastodon.social

@mathew @alcinnz @vertigo One of my big gripes is that all this web stuff is happening *at the expense of* comprehensive cross platform GUI libraries. We still have Qt, but C++ sucks. The biggest Rust GUI libraries have around 100 contributors. That's a small fraction of the labor that goes into Qt.

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