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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by gray_-_wolf on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:23PM (#48001042)
I mean, both wxWidgets and Qt are fine, no? GTK 2 and 3 as well (4+ is... meh). There are plenty applications using one of these (often via python bindings).

I think it is more of a staffing problem. Plenty of people know web development, so you want to use those people for desktop as well. Having desktop be JS (electron) helps a lot with that.

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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by dpe82 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:42PM (#48001262)
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.
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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by maccard on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:48PM (#48001897)
What is native on Linux?
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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by Gigachad on Sunday May 03, 2026 @07:46PM (#48002843)
What is native on Windows too. These days the term native app is so confused it's hard to come up with a definition that doesn't include electron.
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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by maccard on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:31PM (#48011952)
There’s a few options on windows all of which are native. WPF, Winforms and WinUI are all “native”.

> These days the term native app is so confused it's hard to come up with a definition that doesn't include electron.

Electron is _not_ native.

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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by dpe82 on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:08AM (#48005574)
TUIs, apparently. :)
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Re:Why TUIs Are Back by mghackerlady on Monday May 04, 2026 @09:47AM (#48008720)
athena[0], take it or leave it

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets

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