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Does anyone else think we need a new open-source widget toolkit? Qt, GTK, and what else is there? Those guys are old. I've done both, and WPF, and WPF is just so much better. I wish there was an open-source toolkit that didn't just suck.



Yes, most are old and tiered. But another problem is, there is not a company/organization or even language community to take on such a big endeavour.

I'd like to see a C based toolkit, that's made specifically for wrapping it up for other languages (in C++, Ruby, Python, Go etc) and has niceties to help with this.


> I'd like to see a C based toolkit, that's made specifically for wrapping it up for other languages (in C++, Ruby, Python, Go etc) and has niceties to help with this.

This is exactly, why GTK+ and essentially the whole GNOME stack is now introspected with GObjectIntrospection. So, there you have it.


Newer versions (4.7 - 5.1) of Qt are really nice and you have many levels of interaction.

1. Standard C++ ui designed in a form designer and connected to C++ classes.

2. QML + javascript.

3. OpenGL with the ability to use widgets on the OpenGL viewport.




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