Re:Oni – Modern Modal Editing
by freedomben on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:53PM
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> because electron doesnt try to look like each OS's default toolkit, your app looks the same in all 3 major OSes
That's a significant selling point actually. When I did Qt and also Swing, this was something that got me often. Making something look just right with polish gets to be quite difficult without having tons of platform specific code and logic.
GTK claims to be cross platform, but the windows support is (at least was), awful. Lots of special casing required. Also hi dpi screens never worked right. Also just getting tge dev environment configured on mac, windows and linux was a multi day undertakung and required weird dodgy mingw gcc builds.
With electron, the multi platform is taken seriously. It just works. Also, because electron doesnt try to look like each OS's default toolkit, your app looks the same in all 3 major OSes, so you dont need piles of os specific GUI fine tuning code.