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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by spopejoy on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:57AM (#43472136)
> Delphi/Free Pascal, where usually code from 20 years ago compiles today with minor adjustments

Not always. I attempted to upgrade some open source 32bit Delphi frontend code to 64bit/ARM, but the specific GUI toolkit was never ported.

It's similar for Java frontends, JavaFX in particular seems to be a moving target.

QT is a bit of an outlier in terms of frontend stability, but at the cost of the UI looking pretty dated.

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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by rubymamis on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @11:25AM (#43472467)
Qt apps UI can look very good if QML is used with some effort. I wrote about it here: https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor
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