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Re:I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again by nawgz on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:53PM (#34840406)
> Python w/ a gui toolkit

Sorry, this is always the wrong choice, which is why it felt so bad.

Writing a UI in TypeScript with any of the major frontend frameworks will not require you to wade through run-time exceptions

Java native GUI toolkits are also far more mature

Python and TKinter and similar stuff is always just awful, I've never seen someone put together anything half decent with that stack

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Re:I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again by pdntspa on Saturday February 18, 2023 @12:49PM (#34849084)
Calibre, the ebook client, is a python GUI app. wxWidgets I think?

Theres another app that I use for renaming downloaded video files that uses a GUI toolkit.

I've written GUIs in pyGTK for industrial apps and it was a wonderful experience. The only reason I couldn't get it to work now because I can't get pygobject to compile on Windows (the offered solution of MSYS2... wasnt)

Unfortunately this project was working with Stable Diffusion, so I had to use something in Python

In any case I don't like this idea of a right or wrong answer here. LIke way too many people think Electron is a right answer and I think that's just dumb

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