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Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by golergka on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:56AM (#28468345)
> GTK, Qt, Tk and FLTK

Aren't all of those C/C++? There's time and place for manually managing memory, figuring out UB and segfaults. If you're trying to render a frame full of AAA graphics in under 15 milliseconds, or go through a million requests a second, then I don't mind it. But if I'm just writing an email client...

Re:The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017) by nsajko on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:03AM (#28468392)
> Aren't all of those C/C++?

No.

> If you're trying to render a frame full of AAA graphics in under 15 milliseconds

Irrelevant.

> But if I'm just writing an email client...

Use bindings.