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Re: Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT

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Post by moocowtruck » Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

kbutler wrote: post #130

mherrmann wrote: post #88

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Did you see the tutorial? https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs-tutorial

That's his point. With a web app, his experience tells him he can run the code within an environment that he's used to. With PyQt, he needs to download and install PyQt. When ready to ship, he needs to figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients. With web technologies, he knows how to get deliver code in ways it can be loaded in a web browser, and how he can deliver code to end users. Thou…

thank you kbutler! (don't forget i'd also need qt to use py qt)

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT

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Post by moocowtruck » Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

FridgeSeal wrote: post #143

kbutler wrote: post #130

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That's his point. With a web app, his experience tells him he can run the code within an environment that he's used to. With PyQt, he needs to download and install PyQt. When ready to ship, he needs to figure out how to build it into an app that can be delivered to clients. With web technologies, he knows how to get deliver code in ways it can be loaded in a web browser, and how he can deliver code to end users. Thou…

Yes god forbid anyone ever need to learn something new to do something different. The web has a lot of great advantages for sure, but native applications have advantages and can do things that are unwieldy and inefficient via the web.

>Yes god forbid anyone ever need to learn something new to do something different.

i'm just trying to act as if people do when i suggest them learn new programming languages :) or any things which they aren't used to for that matter.

Re: Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT

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Post by camgunz » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 4:20 PM UTC

throwawayfinal wrote: post #285

camgunz wrote: post #152

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There are a lot of counter-examples: - apache - lighttpd - v8 - PostgreSQL - Linux - Go - ZeroMQ - any imaging library (libpng, libjpeg) - any compression library (zlib, xz, bzip2) - urxvt - vim - emacs - tmux Basically none of these have good websites. When I'm looking for a CSS framework or like, UI tricks like scriptaculous then I think it's a good signal, but past that I really think there's no link here. Really…

I would expect that apache and lighttpd are hosted in their respective projects; linux is used to run linux.com servers, etc.

Sure because those are examples of what you can do with the tech. You can't really make a website with Qt, so using... PyQt's website as an example for evaluation doesn't make a ton of sense.