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Re:Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT by mherrmann on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:42PM (#16319402)
Re:Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT by kbutler on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:33PM (#16320019)
That's his point. With a web app, his experience tells him he can run the code within an environment that he's used to.

With PyQt, he needs to download and install PyQt. When ready to ship, he needs to figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients.

With web technologies, he knows how to get deliver code in ways it can be loaded in a web browser, and how he can deliver code to end users.

Though to use that web code with Electron, he needs to download and install electron and figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients.

Re:Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT by FridgeSeal on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:01PM (#16320306)
Yes god forbid anyone ever need to learn something new to do something different.

The web has a lot of great advantages for sure, but native applications have advantages and can do things that are unwieldy and inefficient via the web.

Re:Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT by moocowtruck on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:42PM (#16394694)
>Yes god forbid anyone ever need to learn something new to do something different.

i'm just trying to act as if people do when i suggest them learn new programming languages :) or any things which they aren't used to for that matter.

Re:Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT by moocowtruck on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:39PM (#16394662)
thank you kbutler! (don't forget i'd also need qt to use py qt)