System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop

Re:System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Des... by scythe on Sunday November 07, 2021 @02:47PM (#29142797)

In theory it should be possible to use TypeScript or ClojureScript on top of QML. It's beyond my knowledge if this is enough to write applications. A few people have done some work in this regard, but none of the projects really took off:

https://groups.google.com/g/clojurescript/c/bSBfH1hazSg

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/erdo6t/desktop_app...

https://bugreports.qt.io/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/QTBUG-...

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Re:System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Des... by kitsunesoba on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:16PM (#29143076)

I haven’t played with QML in quite some time but recall it being rather bare-bones compared to Qt Widgets, GTK, AppKit, etc and it felt a lot more mobile-oriented than any of those. I think any alternative to Qt Widgets or GTK is going to need to be more “batteries included”, with a wide variety of highly capable widgets ready to use out of the box.

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