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    • AgreeableLandscapeOPM
      7·
      3 years ago

      It’s a shame because Qt and GTK are surprisingly easy if you know C++ and C, respectively. There are also excellent bindings for other languages. IMO, they’re easier than JavaScript which I have grown a deep hatred to from mostly doing web development.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        6·
        3 years ago

        To be honest, for all its faults, I still find that the web stack is incredibly productive compared to alternatives. I wouldn’t touch Js with a ten foot pole, but with ClojureScript UI development is pure joy. Interactive style development is especially huge for this I find since you often want to build up some state and then play with the presentation. Having to restart the app, and navigate to a particular state to see the change gets tedious really fast. I’d love to see something comparable with native stacks.

      • musicmatze
        1·
        3 years ago

        Do you know a good QT tutorial? Or even better, a KDE tutorial? Because I don’t know one and would like to play with writing a QT app for my KDE desktop… C++ is not the issue (although I’m not a Cpp programmer), but finding tutorials for Qt and KDE frameworks is …