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Re:Python GUIs by brainbag on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:17AM (#36339396)
I'm working on a project and have been thinking along the same lines. Are there any modern cross-platform tools any language that are good for building like the good old days?
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Re:Python GUIs by adderthorn on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:08AM (#36339922)
Lazarus with Free Pascal is the only one I know of. The designer component works just like VB/WinForms but works cross platform.
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Re:Python GUIs by UnnoTed on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:24PM (#36342870)
I like to use GoVCL [0] as it provides the GUI of Lazarus [1] including drag-n-drop form designer but with Go as the main language.

GoVCL's author built a C library called liblcl [2] which is what GoVCL uses to control the GUI, so if you know C you can use it instead of Go.

I'm building a lightweight Steam chat client with GoVCL so that I don't need the official client that takes like 200-300mb ram just to show text [3].

[0]: https://github.com/ying32/govcl

[1]: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ying32/liblcl/blob/master/README.en-US.md

[3]: https://files.catbox.moe/c4lzxb.png

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