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Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by brigandish on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:26AM (#27592863)
> an easy way

That's the key phrase, and it means easy way for front end web devs, those who have forced the entire toolchain to dance to Javascript's tune because everything would be easier if we had one language to rule them all.

Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by tshaddox on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:00PM (#27593356)
What’s the easy way to build cross-platform GUIs for people who aren’t frontend web devs?
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by brigandish on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:46PM (#27600228)
There are plenty of mature cross platform GUI frameworks to choose from, they're not going to go away. Pick one, and like any other framework, if you stick with it you will soon find it easier than using something else.

Even Zig has Qt bindings[1] and that's still enough of a hot young thing to regularly reach HN's front page, so it's likely that other popular languages that are older have bindings, no need to devolve to using something JS devs crave. There's wxWidgets[2] or Shoes (I loved using Shoes, thanks _why!) and many more[3].

[1] https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits

Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by iforgotpassword on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:48PM (#27594771)
Build n native apps, make them look the same and pretend it's cross platform. :-)
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by CyberDildonics on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:31PM (#27596087)
I've seen people say stuff like this before. Do you actually not realize there have been cross platform GUI libraries for the last thirty years?