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by koraybalci 6367 days ago
I have been using wxWidgets for about 5 years now with C++. At first, it was really difficult to do everything in code, hard to change GUI when you need to, very time consuming. But still it was the best option, our project was cross platform. It was also difficult to understand how to build and link.

However, once you get the basics it's quite fast and also have threads, networking, file streaming etc, so you don't need a zillion of libraries to do every little thing. Oh, and it has a great OpenGL support (see my projects at http://www.ccsoft.com.tr for screenshots)

With the help of wxFormBuilder (a free design tool), now design and modfications are very much faster.

Besides, it's been there for about 15 years. There is a decent documentation, a book, a large community to answer your questions.

My only plan is to do a project on wxPython and polish my python knowledge and see which (C++ or Python) suits me better.