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0 pointslayer81y ago0 comments

That’s not accurate, there are cross-platform toolkits that achieve at least a close-to-native look&feel. This is very different from giving up on it entirely and going web-style UI.

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tonsky1y ago· 2 in thread

If they use native widgets, they usually look really bad If they just “imitate” look and feel, they usually fall very short of the real thing

Either way, it’s bad experience for the end user

cess111y ago

I don't know, I think the Racket GUI toolkit and JavaFX work fine for building cross platform standalone applications.

tonsky1y ago

That’s two perfect examples! Racket seems to try to use native widgets, and looks horrible as a result, at least on macOS

JavaFX uses the same approach as Humble UI: they draw all the widgets themselves and have custom cross-platform look and feel.

We aim to be better quality version of JavaFX

kaba01y ago

Do you mean the state of the art java AWT and/or Eclipse toolkit?

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