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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by sametmax on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:11PM (#14090126)
You bet ? I have 3 software opened right now using Python for their GUI: my rss reader, my torrent downloader and dropbox. And I got many more installed on my machine.

But the thing is, even when I write something for myself, I first write a command line app, then a web service. Never a GUI, because it's such pain.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by weberc2 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:35PM (#14091041)
To be fair, your "Python GUI apps" are a very thin wrapper around C/C++ libraries.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by sametmax on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:43PM (#14091102)
Of course. Electron is just a layer around the chrome compiled engined as well. If you want anything to display a matrix of pixels changing rapidly, you need low level performances eventually.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by weberc2 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:55PM (#14091838)
Of course, but in your case, the C/C++ libraries you're calling into aren't doing any heavy lifting, they're just making calls to an X server (or equivalent) or perhaps to a graphics card. There's no reason GTK (or the GUI portion of Qt) couldn't be implemented in Python, it's just a huge undertaking and it was started in C (or C++ as the case may be).
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