Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
by MaxBarraclough on Thursday March 03, 2022 @08:24AM
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> Java Swing still lets you make native-looking-and-feeling apps (with some care). I don't know of any new GUI frameworks that let you do the same.
That's the whole raison d'être of the (C++) wxWidgets toolkit. [0] It fully commits to using native GUI widgets, rather than impersonating them. (That is, it wraps various other toolkits.)
As others have pointed out, the other major cross-platform toolkits (Qt, GTK) also do a pretty good job.
That's the whole raison d'être of the (C++) wxWidgets toolkit. [0] It fully commits to using native GUI widgets, rather than impersonating them. (That is, it wraps various other toolkits.)
As others have pointed out, the other major cross-platform toolkits (Qt, GTK) also do a pretty good job.
[0] https://wxwidgets.org/