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0x457 4 hours ago

Huh? Qt, GTK, Cocoa (AppKit and UIKit), bunch of other linux friendly gui frameworks been around for a long time, even Flutter is still around. What is being killed?

Shank 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple believes SwiftUI is the future, not AppKit and UIKit/Cocoa.

throw83949390 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What versions of QT and GTK? Running GTK1 or 2 apps is pretty hard. P TUI apps from that era work just fine!

The same reason webui and js is so popular!

worthless-trash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

gtk1/gtk2/gtk3 code will require you shipping gtk(version) on modern linux, not all distros have the legacy libraries.

Apple deprecated carbon (which was a thing when gtk1 was around). I don't think you have an option for this on their ARM hardware.

QT1->N code has the same problem, the older libraries are not shipped on most modern linux.

I do absolutely understand if you're going to do static compiles, that can work around that problem, but that arguement nullifies everything, since you can run/write/execute anything in a turing complete system, if you complain you're just not dedicated enough.