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Re:Why do we create modern Desktop GUI apps using HTML/CSS/J... by intelVISA on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:36PM (#34698112)
Qt is lowkey quite great, I just wish they hadn't thrown away their market share...
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Re:Why do we create modern Desktop GUI apps using HTML/CSS/J... by loph on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:21PM (#34698886)
WSJT-X is a cross-platform QT app. It is multi-threaded, processes audio in close to real time, talks to devices over serial interfaces, interoperates with other apps over UDP and TCP connections. It starts fast, and has a pretty small memory footprint (around 80 MB) and was literally written (largely) by amateurs.

OTOH, it is not a beautiful, lovely app. The UI does look like 1999. But it works fabulously.

(ref https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/)

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