Re:Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
by shakna on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:58AM
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Why?
With GCC's ability to deploy to just about every architecture, most heavy-handed libraries using C themselves (hence a C FFI in higher languages), and access to the biggest and best GUI libs.
With GCC's ability to deploy to just about every architecture, most heavy-handed libraries using C themselves (hence a C FFI in higher languages), and access to the biggest and best GUI libs.
Add in musl and static compilation, you get:
* Probably fast
* Native UIs
* Tiny binaries that are easy to distribute