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FLTK 1.4 Released

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113 points mappu | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dima55 ◴[19 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42188517[source]▶
For those unfamiliar, FLTK is a cross-platform widget library in C++, with bindings to many other languages available. It's vaguely similar to something like Qt, but far simpler and far more developer-friendly. It is excellent; strongly recommended to all, for everything.
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jorvi ◴[20 Nov 24 00:51 UTC] No.42189727[source]▶
If it’s “far simpler, more developer friendly and recommend for everything”, why are there so many QT applications- and so few FLTK applications?
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1. a96 ◴[21 Nov 24 09:19 UTC] No.42202496[source]▶
A few (historical) contributing factors: FLTK doesn't follow "system" theming or look or integrate with anything. It's not the default of common "desktop evironments". It may also be less portable and lack bindings for the language the dev wants to use.

Both Gtk and Qt, but especially Gtk have those features. Qt also has a lot of corporate backing and jobs advertising. Gtk is the official GNU toolkit(?).

(I would also disagree on developer friendly or simple. But that's opinion of course.)