Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by sametmax on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:43PM
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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
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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).