Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by lmm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:24AM
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> 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.
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.