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Re:wxWidgets 3.1.5 by GuB-42 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:19AM (#26818999)
> Ah indeed, I am one of those painful macOS users.. the carelessness with which the mother company changes and/or breaks API's overnight still boggles my mind

I suppose that's one of the reasons why Electron is so popular these days. If MacOS is constantly changing its APIs, that Microsoft can't seem to decide between classic Win32 and Modern UI, Linux that is split between Qt and GTK, plus all the mess on the mobile side.

Because OSes can't provide a consistent API, app ship with their their own OS! (a browser today is essentially an OS on top of an OS).

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Re:wxWidgets 3.1.5 by BruceEel on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:33AM (#26819655)
> Because OSes can't provide a consistent API, app ship with their their own OS! (a browser today is essentially an OS on top of an OS).

This. Even when targeting a single platform the developer may very well choose to use one of these frameworks just to avoid having to deal with the most horrible parts of the platform in question (and GUI's tend to be those parts.)

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