Favorite GUI library?

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 12:29:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 10:30:21 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> - cross platform: no need to deploy libs (e.g. Gtk on Mac and 
>> Windows)
>
> Well... that depends. If you can just use the browser already 
> installed, yeah, but then you have to deal with cross-browser 
> (which is still a thing, like I did a wysiwyg editor for work 
> that is a redistributable server exe they run locally, but the 
> ui is in a browser. You get better results on firefox than 
> chrome due to a bunch of little things.)

True, true. I've had my share of that. But often it can be fixed 
easily or the next version of the browser can already cope with 
it.

> Same with deprecation. Web stuff breaks somewhat frequently, 
> and new features requiring bleeding edge won't always be there.

In my experience, if you stick to plain JS+CSS+HTML things don't 
break that often. On the network side things can change. Then 
again, if you stick to robust bog standard protocols and the 
like, you're not really in danger of having to re-write 
everything.