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dataflow on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Racket Is an Acceptable Python

On whatever platform. Requiring a user to download and install a 100MB+ framework just to show a basic GUI is just ridiculous. Even Sublime is 33 MB and I see that as bloated, and that's including its separate copy of Python itself...

glenneroo on July 12, 2019 [–]

Maybe it's because PyQt is a lot more than just a basic GUI[0].

> PyQt is one of the most popular Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform C++ framework.

And why are you comparing an editor to a GUI framework? Or is there a GUI framework also called Sublime?

[0]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt

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