Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outlive me

Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by thyristan on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:12AM (#45593837)

There are no languages with good GUI frameworks except C, C++ and C#. All other bindings typically suck ass.

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by MangoToupe on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:31AM (#45594134)

And presumably C# is just binding to some native toolkit

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by 0x457 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:38PM (#45595984)

Yes, but C# is very nice as a language for GUI, can't explain it, just feels right.

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by MangoToupe on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:12AM (#45641679)

Unfortunately, that's a mostly-windows thing. I can't say i've ever used such an experience myself.

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by nobleach on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:01PM (#45596299)

If I had to simply bind to a native toolkit, I think Lazrus can do that. Having loved Delphi back in the day, I think I'd prefer to write ObjectPascal for anything more than a very simple utility. C# would likely be my second choice.

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:38PM (#45599171)

There is no native toolkit on Linux, at least not in the sense that there is on macOS or windows.

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Re:Show HN: Halloy – the modern IRC client I hope will outli... by MangoToupe on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:11AM (#45641667)

Yea but linux doesn't have a toolkit at all, in that sense, and suffers deeply for it. Imho

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