Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics
by pmlnr on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:55AM
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GTK? QT? And, since we're talking elementary, Vala?
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GTK has been fairly hostile to non-Gnome usage since the GTK 3 era; they keep on breaking backwards compatibility for applications that use it, don't care about whether apps can be used on non-Gnome desktop environments, etc. I don't think it's all that polished either.
I instantly believe you, based on my experience of the fiasco that is Gnome 3, but can you share some examples of this?
Have fun reading,
Wish I hadn't asked now. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Not really, they don't even cover half of these ones
https://developer.apple.com/reference/
Not to mention the related GUI tooling.
Where is Instruments on QtCreator, for example.
You have valgrind and many other tools instead of "Instruments".
The GNOME project itself [1] has a lot of projects which compete with what you linked. Sure, Apple has a few billion dollars to dump into development every year, so you have to adjust for scale.
None of them has the polish of a full working desktop stack like macOS.
Once upon a time, around 2000-2, I did some minor contributions to Gtkmm.
Yeah. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854983
I know GNU/Linux since 1995, eventually one gets tired of being part of the 3% desktop usage.