[Gllug] Cross-platform GUI

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Mon Mar 10 10:02:07 UTC 2003


And verily, didst BABA Yoshihiko announce to the hordes:
> 
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > Or XUL and Javascript.
> > 
> > Or some language + Gtk, but I'm not sure if there is a mature Windows
> > port of Gtk, and I don't want the Gtk look-and-feel on Windows anyway.
> > 
> > Or OCaML + Gtk (but again not sure if this is viable on Windows).
> 
> I guess you have considered Kylix.  How about http://www.widestudio.org/
> ?  It runs both on Win and *nix platforms and can be developed with
> C/C++, Perl, Python and Ruby as the language.

Kylix isn't "free as in freedom" though.
It's just delphi for linux, which means, no sources, lock in and if Borland
feel like it, upgrades that break compatibility.

Not exactly the best way for a language to be rolled out.

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