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Definitely Flutter. https://flutter.dev
1. Take care to ensure that you follow platform guidelines
2. Ensure that the view and controller are not tightly coupled
3. Ensure that whatever libraries you want to use have support for all platforms you want to support
4. Pray that you don't need something very platform specific (or need to use Bluetooth, which I am told is a huge pain)
Personally I like JavaFX. I made something pretty complicated with tkinter and Python. It's not that hard to do but the result looks awful, it doesn't support many features people expect in 2022, and the documentation for using tk in Python is poor. You probably need to refer to the tcl/tk documentation and translate it in your head to apply to Python. As much as people hate Electron, the rendering engine in a web br…
I used JavaFX a while ago and hated it. It was insanely slow, fonts were awful and the lib of components was non existent. It really felt like something created by someone but never used in the real world. Is it even used anywhere?
Possibly still is like that. But that gets around to your question... is anyone still around to notice?
If you don't think C or C++ are sane languages you are never going to write any thing sane for Von Neumann computers imo. Much less something cross platform.
Ok, so be it. C and C++ are still insane to work with.
Personally I like JavaFX. I made something pretty complicated with tkinter and Python. It's not that hard to do but the result looks awful, it doesn't support many features people expect in 2022, and the documentation for using tk in Python is poor. You probably need to refer to the tcl/tk documentation and translate it in your head to apply to Python. As much as people hate Electron, the rendering engine in a web br…
I recently found this tutorial: https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/index.html and am going thru ut.
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> trouble w/ Electron is that you have 30MB of runtime for any application JavaFX has the same problem? Or you rely on user's JREs already installed? I'd think 30MB really isn't much any more.
The difference is that Electron is bundled with every app. If you have 200 electron apps, that’s 200x30mb. With Java, the JRE is reused so the binaries can be smaller.
Maybe look into Skia, it’s Googles abstraction layer for multiple graphics libraries on multiple platforms.
But if you are just learning, I wouldn’t concern yourself with any of those sort of environment conditions, just figure out how to make something that works on your preferred OS.
For example, if you use Windows, learn 2d rendering with direct x. Learn about event handlers for controller interaction. And of course read about MVC.
Definitely Flutter. https://flutter.dev
Flutter Desktop seems promising, and at least good enough to create some cross-platform Desktop apps like Rows: [0]
Hate to say it but, this is one of the biggest tragedies of modern CS. Best bet is to use gtk, or qt, and hope the language bindings for your lang of choice aren't horrible (depending on the language you might be in tears)
