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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by andydotxyz on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:52PM (#28711787)
Yeah. Fyne picked Go because it is a great language for building a GUI - not because we were Go developers. Fyne existed before the founders knew any Go :)

Mostly coding window managers and desktop environment in C/C++ is so painful that you can see why it stagnated 20 years ago...

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by eigengrau5150 on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:30AM (#28714936)
Is that really a problem with C/C++ or an issue with the X Window System?
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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by andydotxyz on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:06AM (#28715865)
Personally I think both. Yes the X11 APIs are horrible to work with - but decent code can abstract that away so the app APIs are sane. Doing that was easy with Go, but doing the same with C seems to end up passing around `void*` everywhere, so type safety (and a good coding experience) goes out the window.
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