PureBasic: The Quiet Survivor(medium.com)
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PureBasic: The Quiet Survivor
https://medium.com/@chikega/why-purebasic-is-the-last-surviving-cross-platform-systems-gui-language-7bde899759a2
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Some other options.
https://github.com/andlabs/libui
> Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
Missing a lot of desktop features and abandoned.
https://wxwidgets.org/
> wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
https://github.com/fltk/fltk
> FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without bloat ...
Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.
https://github.com/andlabs/libui
> Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
Missing a lot of desktop features and abandoned.
https://wxwidgets.org/
> wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
https://github.com/fltk/fltk
> FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without bloat ...
Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.
If you think about it, Godot fits very well and is very, very cross-platform. It brings somewhat more but you can strip it down to only the necessary, throwing away the 3D stuff and keeping only what you use. It includes a scripting language and the GUI stuff. Someone could actually build a specific solution with it!
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/engine_details/develo...
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/usin...
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/engine_details/develo...
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/usin...
On the PC, my introduction to systems programming and Borland ecosystem, after some months of GW-BASIC, was Turbo BASIC.
Already a great experience with a structured compiled BASIC in 1991, and what made me look into other Borland languages.
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basi...
Nowadays it lives on as PowerBASIC.
I don't get the downplay of Delphi or C++ Builder, other that they aren't cool.
Already a great experience with a structured compiled BASIC in 1991, and what made me look into other Borland languages.
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basi...
Nowadays it lives on as PowerBASIC.
I don't get the downplay of Delphi or C++ Builder, other that they aren't cool.
The elephant in the room is that, as all of the mentioned current solutions render their own controls, there isn't a native-look anymore.
I doubt anyone in GenZ or below appreciates the effort put into making a native text field work consistently enough across platforms.
I doubt anyone in GenZ or below appreciates the effort put into making a native text field work consistently enough across platforms.
They don't even get how we wrote applications across 8 and 16 bit home computers.
Thankfully they would never managed to run Electron.
Thankfully they would never managed to run Electron.
Wow 79 euros for a lifetime license!?
It's still alive because it's a passion project for the developer, he doesn't make a lot of money from it. Not because the tool declined in quality, but because nowadays efficient RAD is a very niche market and the licenses are still valid for the lifetime (again showing the passion to the product rather than optimizing income).
See this interview for some details: https://www.purebasic.fr/blog/?p=554