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Re:The Codex App by dheera on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:55PM (#46863303)
This. Even Linux is nasty. Qt and GTK are both horrible messes to use.

It would be nice if someone made a way to write desktop apps in JavaScript with a consistent, cross-platform modern UI (i.e. swipe to refresh, tabs, beautiful toggle switches, not microscopic check boxes) but without resorting to rendering everything inside a bloated WebKit browser.

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Re:The Codex App by adastra22 on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:19PM (#46864413)
That’s what React Native is. But JavaScript is the problem.
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Re:The Codex App by wizzledonker on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:40AM (#46866955)
Qt is not a horrible mess to use, the problem is just people don't bother to learn any tech stack outside web. It's so obvious that this is the issue to anybody who actually does native development.
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Re:The Codex App by tristan957 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @12:54AM (#46867044)
Can you explain why GTK is a mess?
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