Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by barrkel on Sunday August 28, 2016 @06:25PM (#12378836)

GTK+ is dreadful on Windows. I'd stay away.

Personally I implement the UI in as thin a layer as can be architected and reimplement for every platform. It's the best way, and probably cheaper for most apps than trying to force some lowest common denominator library to express what you want in high fidelity.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by rer on Sunday August 28, 2016 @07:04PM (#12378967)

Ok, no GTK+! (Could this be fixed with GLib?)

I didn't understand this. When you say you implement the UI as a thin layer do you mean you wrap only the few controls you need?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by andlabs on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:14PM (#12456307)

libui only wraps around GTK+ on Unix systems. On Windows, it uses the native Windows API directly.

GLib is a utility library; it provides things like container types, filesystem access, networking utilities, threads, object-oriented programming with events and properties, and other similar functions in a platform-independent manner. GTK+ uses GLib. You can use GLib on its own as well. It won't solve the problem of GTK+ being clunky on Windows, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform... by rer on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:43PM (#12471210)

What I don't get is: which library lets you draw stuff on the screen. GLib or GTK+?

I thought that was GLib, and GTK+ was using GLib to implement controls.

Which library does one need to build their own controls?

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