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Re: Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?

#141

I write native GUIs in GTK using Julia at the moment. Julia is one of the most modern languages you can use today. Multiple-dispatch, very functional, modern package management and virtual environments, high performance, modern sophisticated REPL environment. GTK is quite nice as Glade is one of the nicer GUI designers. Here is a simple Julia GTK project on GitHub: https://github.com/ordovician/RocketBuilder.jl Some…

Does GTK run on windows and macOS also?

Re: Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?

#143

Not everyone considers Tcl to be a same language, but if you are willing to approach things a little differently Tcl/Tk can be very effective in the space you are looking at.

Sorry, s/same/sane/.

Also "modern" is in the eye of the beholder. There are many features that Tcl had long before some of the supposedly more modern languages. In some areas like single-file deployment of applications it's arguably still ahead of its newer competitors.

Re: Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?

#144
I hope golang is modern language for Nerds:

https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

I done research and have found golang fune is able to run even on thin devices. It core depend on open gl and can be changed to run with messa for embeeded device displays. https://pirogove.blogspot.com/

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