Why do we need #Electron and other JS frameworks to make cross-platfrom GUIs? How are they more portable than a Python program using Qt?
@trwnh Oh.
@otini are we complaining about performance and suggesting python? Besides python and qt has been a mess forever
@sweetietheyknow I'm suggesting to use Python only for the GUI, for which the performance doesn't matter. For performance-critical programs I would expect the core to be written in a fast language and communicate with the GUI somehow.
I didn't know Python+Qt was considered a mess, why is that?
@otini JavaScript is not slow anymore! We have websssembly if you need the last 10% too. Idk exactly. I recall the licensing being wonky.
@sweetietheyknow Oh, but my complains about Javascript are not about performance.
And here I was more wondering why Electron was depicted as *the* library to use for cross-platform UI, while Qt has been trying to do just that for 10 years.
@otini it’s a good question. The license? The api? The language? Idk. It’ll get even better when we run Qt in browsers tho! (:
@sweetietheyknow Yeah I guess the browser apps are a major advantage
@otini well, that requires people to learn Python and Qt... the appeal of Electron isn't "portability", it's "reusing HTML/CSS/JS knowledge"