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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

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483 points mraniki | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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phkahler ◴[31 Mar 25 13:30 UTC] No.43534852[source]▶
Here is a real coding problem that I might be willing to make a cash-prize contest for. We'd need to nail down some rules. I'd be shocked if any LLM can do this:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1414

Make a GTK 4 version of Solvespace. We have a single C++ file for each platform - Windows, Mac, and Linux-GTK3. There is also a QT version on an unmerged branch for reference. The GTK3 file is under 2KLOC. You do not need to create a new version, just rewrite the GTK3 Linux version to GTK4. You may either ask it to port what's there or create the new one from scratch.

If you want to do this for free to prove how great the AI is, please document the entire session. Heck make a YouTube video of it. The final test is weather I accept the PR or not - and I WANT this ticket done.

I'm not going to hold my breath.

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1. iamleppert ◴[31 Mar 25 16:30 UTC] No.43536869[source]▶
GTK is an abomination of a UI framework. You should be looking for another way to manage your UI entirely, not trying to keep up with the joneses, who will no doubt release something new in short order and set yet another hoop to jump through, without providing any benefit to you at all.

It's openly hostile to not consider the upgrade path of existing users, and make things so difficult that it requires huge lifts just to upgrade versions of something like a UI framework.

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2. phkahler ◴[31 Mar 25 17:06 UTC] No.43537261[source]▶
>> GTK is an abomination of a UI framework.

I respectfully disagree with that. I think it's a solid UI framework, but...

>> It's openly hostile to not consider the upgrade path of existing users, and make things so difficult that it requires huge lifts just to upgrade versions of something like a UI framework.

I completely agree with you on that. We barely use any UI widgets so you'd think the port would be easy enough. I went through most of the checklist for changes you can make while still using GTK3 in prep for 4. "Don't access event structure members directly, use accessor functions." OK I made that change which made the code a little more verbose. But then they changed a lot of the accessor functions going from 3 to 4. Like WTF? I'm just trying to create a menu but menus don't exist any more - you make them out of something else. Oh and they're not windows they are surfaces. Like why?

I hope with some of the big architectural changes out of the way they can stabilize and become a nice boring piece of infrastructure. The talk of regular API changes every 3-5 years has me concerned. There's no reason for that.