Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta
by lmm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:29AM
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> Don't get me wrong, it would be awesome if we could compromise on any given toolkit, but do you honestly see any of them waving the white flag?
No doubt it will be years before everything moves over, but at this point Qt is the clear winner: it's always looked better, its licensing issues are now solved, it's the only option that has remotely decent bindings for a remotely decent language. A month or so ago there was a new release of Wx and the comments here were universally "that still exists?"; GTK will go the same way.
There are other options, there are people who really like those options, but Qt has the momentum and has the knowledge base. Just use Qt and you'll be fine, or at least you'll be no less fine that you were with GDI on windows.
No doubt it will be years before everything moves over, but at this point Qt is the clear winner: it's always looked better, its licensing issues are now solved, it's the only option that has remotely decent bindings for a remotely decent language. A month or so ago there was a new release of Wx and the comments here were universally "that still exists?"; GTK will go the same way.
There are other options, there are people who really like those options, but Qt has the momentum and has the knowledge base. Just use Qt and you'll be fine, or at least you'll be no less fine that you were with GDI on windows.