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fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

Rob Fahrni

I haven’t looked at Linux development in a very long time, say 2009 or so. What is the recommended way to create a native application? What UI framework would one use? Is C/C++ still the primary language or has Rust or some other language become the new hotness?

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cas@social.treehouse.systems

caleb 🌈

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@fahrni on the GTK side folks are doing rust, C, Python, even Swift nowadays?!

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Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu

Tom Brand

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@fahrni ELECTRON!

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ianRobinson@mastodon.social

Ian Robinson

Reply to @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

@fahrni Xojo makes native Linux apps. And native Android, iOS macOS, and Windows apps. Don’t be fooled by the cross platform tag line. It’s not using a framework across all the targets. It’s native controls on them all. Language is a modern object oriented version of Basic.

https://www.xojo.com

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fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

Rob Fahrni

Reply to @Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu

@Eggfreckles No

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fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

Rob Fahrni

Reply to @ianRobinson@mastodon.social

@ianRobinson Oh yes! I’m a Xojo fan! My first dev language was Microsoft’s Professional Basic, which was awesome.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @cas@social.treehouse.systems
@cas @fahrni Rust is hot but did not work well with Gtk last time I tried.
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fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe

Rob Fahrni

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@pavel @cas Good to know. Thank you.

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