DIDiris·Aug 26, 2022
Maybe QML with DOtherSide[0]?
[0]https://github.com/filcuc/DOtherSide
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dotherside
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filcuc / dotherside
dotherside
C language library for creating bindings for the Qt QML language
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesQt + DOtherSide/NimQML is working out to be a decent GUI framework for desktop app development.
https://github.com/filcuc/DOtherSide
https://github.com/filcuc/nimqml
LGPL compliance is an important consideration owing to Qt's being LGPL licensed, but it's actually not a big deal despite there being a lot of FUD around it:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...
In Prologue: A web framework written in Nim> "you still need C++ on the background"
There are ways around that. For example, DOtherSide is a C library to bind to QML, and binary releases for Windows and Linux are made available on the GitHub page, so in principal you could try out QML without needing to directly use a C/C++ compiler:
https://github.com/filcuc/DOtherSide
There are also a few other languages with QML bindings, such as Rust (the Rust binding is based on DOtherSide):
https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/02/17/a-simple-rust-g...
In Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT