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Re: Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

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Post by realusername »

Snowworm wrote: post #22
karmakaze wrote: post #12

If I was going to try using something new it would be Flutter/Dart. If I was going to use something (old) that might be Qt, or something that I know from way back straight up Java Swing. For something big a framework like Eclipse RCP. Should be able to use Kotlin for these now at least.

I don't understand the hype around Flutter for desktop. It's possible to make a cross platform app, but it only looks good for Android and iOS. I haven't used react native, but I imagine it would be better for cross platform apps because you could create a separate UI for mobile and web, but keep the same backend logic for both.

> I haven't used react native, but I imagine it would be better for cross platform apps because you could create a separate UI for mobile and web, but keep the same backend logic for both.

As far as I know, all react native gtk are abandonned so I would not be so sure about that, flutter does better in this area

Re: Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

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Post by cercatrova »

Snowworm wrote: post #22
karmakaze wrote: post #12

If I was going to try using something new it would be Flutter/Dart. If I was going to use something (old) that might be Qt, or something that I know from way back straight up Java Swing. For something big a framework like Eclipse RCP. Should be able to use Kotlin for these now at least.

I don't understand the hype around Flutter for desktop. It's possible to make a cross platform app, but it only looks good for Android and iOS. I haven't used react native, but I imagine it would be better for cross platform apps because you could create a separate UI for mobile and web, but keep the same backend logic for both.

> It's possible to make a cross platform app, but it only looks good for Android and iOS.

Why is that? Flutter is best suited towards owning your own UI and design language, and not relying on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS etc specific designs, like many companies these days (Spotify, Slack).

Re: Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

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Post by epirogov »

I wrote my desktop app in this winter with WinUI 3 Project Reunion in hope it will be available on linux soon. Currently this supperior project with large list on anccestors WPF, UWP and Xamarin can be compiled to Windows, MacOs and Android without any code and layout changes.

Re: Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

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Post by karmakaze »

Snowworm wrote: post #22
karmakaze wrote: post #12

If I was going to try using something new it would be Flutter/Dart. If I was going to use something (old) that might be Qt, or something that I know from way back straight up Java Swing. For something big a framework like Eclipse RCP. Should be able to use Kotlin for these now at least.

I don't understand the hype around Flutter for desktop. It's possible to make a cross platform app, but it only looks good for Android and iOS. I haven't used react native, but I imagine it would be better for cross platform apps because you could create a separate UI for mobile and web, but keep the same backend logic for both.

Just saw the timely announcement of Flutter 3.

There's some good comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344863

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