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by cjbprime 2971 days ago
It can be in theory, but in practice managing native widgets across all major platforms is such a mammoth project that it's almost impossible. People have been trying for decades, rarely with success.
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AlikhanPeleg 2971 days ago
The .net has Eto.Forms which does something similar

https://github.com/picoe/Eto

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mhasbini 2971 days ago
libui[0] is C library that aims to provide this. It have many (WIP) language bindings.

[0] https://github.com/andlabs/libui

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izacus 2971 days ago
Huh? There are thousands of successful apps doing exactly that. The browsers Electron builds upon are the prime example!
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dyeje 2971 days ago
How so? They are rendering HTML, not native elements.
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chillacy 2970 days ago
They probably mean the underlying browsers like chrome or Firefox.
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gt2 2967 days ago
You could say that's why web won. OP should ask (and perhaps share with us) why the native widgets are important, genuinely interested!
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