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by munchbunny 2686 days ago
As someone who used to develop with some of those options, I'm frankly glad that I can use HTML/CSS and Electron + React. It's much easier on the developer, even if it's less performant for the end user.
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That's exactly the problem: the developer prioritizing their own convenience over the end user experience.
I can also just not write the software.

It's not like I don't get the pain of slow tooling. I cut my teeth on C++. However, it's not a laziness issue, it's trading performance in one place for functionality in another. Case in point, at the time I chose C++ because I was trying to do game development in the pre-unity days. These days I'd choose Unity in a heartbeat because it's fast enough and saves me a lot of busywork. I could write more performant code from scratch, but it's really not worth the extra months spent wrangling polygons because the game never gets made.

Which options in particular? I'm guessing Gtk or Tk might be pretty annoying to work with.
Gtk is mostly annoying to work with because the documentation is poor.