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