Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform?

Re:Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform? by fla on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:20AM (#9817703)

Qt is an amazing framework which got many things right!

The combo C++ QML QtQuick made my life so much easier for a cross-platform OSX/Win app.

I was able to develop most of it on Linux, and it even looks nifty!

What else can you wish ? :)

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Re:Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform? by cm3 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @07:15AM (#9818131)

I also prefer Qt but starting with Qt4 it imposes a minimum memory overhead of 25MiB to 30MiB for even a simple single window application with nothing in it. QML is likely higher. I don't like Gtk3 but they don't have this particular disadvantage. It's too much overhead and I haven't found a fix.

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Re:Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform? by fla on Thursday July 02, 2015 @08:27AM (#9818362)

Yes that's one of the downside. Also, the binaries can get fat really quick. Especially when you link statically with some of the Qt components.

I guess it's a fair trade-off when you target today's desktop systems. Otherwise, it might worth looking at Qt for Embedded Linux.

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