You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
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Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#2I remember that not having the right VB DLL was a frequent issue when trying to run EXE files produced by people with visual basic. For me, this Windows "nocode" environment was a big gatekeeper which hindered me in learning programming. It may sound a bit sentimental, but I learned C with Linux, because docs where readily available and open. I literally read man pages.
Today the tooling is just better. Just think, for instance, of the go and rust tool chains which easily produce ready to ship EXE files. Classical toolkits such as Qt still are around.
Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#3twitter.com?
Is that from OP or HN?
Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#4I mean...at least for GTK on Linux, you still can? It won't be 10 seconds (probably closer to 30-40 seconds) since you have to go through a couple of prompts to name it, decide a license, etc., but with:
https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/
You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.
Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#5Can view without subjecting yourself to "X": https://xcancel.com/tsoding/status/1998403967718400376
Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#6Can view without subjecting yourself to "X": https://xcancel.com/tsoding/status/1998403967718400376
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Re: You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
#7I remember that not having the right VB DLL was a frequent issue when trying to run EXE files produced by people with visual basic. For me, this Windows "nocode" environment was a big gatekeeper which hindered me in learning programming. It may sound a bit sentimental, but I learned C with Linux, because docs where readily available and open. I literally read man pages. Today the tooling is just better. Just think, f…
If you did it in Delphi it will work no matter what.
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#10You can still do this!
The only difference is that a lot of apps prioritize cross platform UIs over good, fast native UIs.
WinForms and WPF are still well supported.