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by riq_ 3687 days ago
I think this is useful when you need simple dialogs. For example if you want to display a license agreement, or similar. It is overkill to bundle Qt libs to display simple dialogs.

But if you want a complex and powerful UI toolkit (let's say you want to create an editor), you need a toolkit like Qt. You can't do that with just wrappers to native toolkits. You will only get the greatest common divisor.

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I don't know how far one can go with this approach, but if this project works, I believe one could built on top of it to create more powerful UI toolkits. The advantage would be that, unlike things such as Qt and GTK which draw their own widgets on top of (I think) a OpenGL "canvas", this one uses the platform native UI widgets.. Tl-dr: this approach is lighter and sanner because it leaves the "drawing" burden to the OS itself..