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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by lmm on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:44PM (#14093870)
> Python still doesn't seem to have a great cross-platform desktop GUI, as far as I can find.

PyQt is literally the best cross-platform desktop GUI going, in any language.

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by tigershark on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:09AM (#14095197)
Last time that I tried QT was a huge pain compared to WPF or other solutions, admittedly something like 5-6 years ago. And it was proprietary and it needed a licence. With all my good will I find quite difficult to believe that now PyQT is the silver bullet to write all UIs. For sure it's not for me given that I find python a pretty average language with the huge handicap of duck typing (and before someone starts, yes, I'm aware of the 'type annotations')
Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by lmm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:24AM (#14095797)
> Last time that I tried QT was a huge pain compared to WPF or other solutions, admittedly something like 5-6 years ago.

Shrug, I found it much nicer than anything else I'd used, but I've never used WPF (which is single-platform in any case).

> And it was proprietary and it needed a licence.

Neither Qt nor PyQt is proprietary in the usal sense of the word (nor were they 5-6 years ago). If you're using a non-standard definition it would probably be more productive to use a different word.

> For sure it's not for me given that I find python a pretty average language with the huge handicap of duck typing (and before someone starts, yes, I'm aware of the 'type annotations')

I'm a huge fan of type systems. I wish I could find a UI framework that's anywhere near as nice as PyQt for an ML-family language.