Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Date: 12 Apr 2026 18:14:26 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10rfrqe$2er9p$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 24EIhpkGdK4H8C6Xb4aU4QtOmorY5kc6GC0oqMv+J2zMdBHF6u Cancel-Lock: sha1:bvzJqP2/g3D7bJAd/bB82f88CaU= sha256:xgT5HNhTf+7n5qD/R9WBzz3JxBg+5HrmETjnwQ+7eZc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85718 On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:23:10 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 12/04/2026 02:12, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-04-12, rbowman wrote: >> >>> While I am primarily a C programmer and mostly worked with Motif/Tk my >>> initial feeling was Gtk was incredibly ugly, and the was a few Gtks >>> ago. >> >> What little GUI puttering I've done in Linux was with GTK. >> I too am primarily a C programmer, and GTK was the only package that >> worked with straight C (i.e. not requiring C++). >> > I chose a different route, I program in javascript and CSS and run it > all under apache/php. > > With C backends underneath. > > Its justs simpler than faffing around with all the toolkits and widgets That works. However if you develop a full on Angular app it stops being simple.