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by mamcx 238 days ago
> Rust exceling at GUIs is a bit of a strech.

BTW, this happens to almost all languages. Which ACTUAL good GUIs toolkits exist? And which ACTUAL languages HAVE good integration or implementation of them?

A good GUI kit AND integration is a bigger task than do a Os or a RDBMS. (And neither are many good languages for RDBMS)
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pjmlp 237 days ago
Delphi, VB, Java, Kotlin, Dart, C#, VB.NET, Swift, Objective-C.

All of the above also have great ORM libraries and RDBMS standard driver APIs, as doing data entry applications is a common enterprise GUI workflow.

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mamcx 237 days ago
Well if that is what you call good from ORM (I agree Delphi for GUI, the others not so much).

A truly good one? FoxPro. Is very hard to know if you don't have exposure to what should be.

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0x457 238 days ago
Depends on your definition of good.

I think Swift (and even ObjC) is perfect for AppKit & UIKit. I think those frameworks are pretty good and I like using them. Languages have great integration, Swift literally made around them. Those toolkits have great integrations with the macOS.

I find C# a pretty nice language for GUI, I assume it has good (maybe not great) integration with at least one of MS GUI toolkits.

I find Rust good for GUI, but right now story is meh. Wrapper style frameworks always suffer from Rust not being whatever it wraps. Pure Rust framework miss a lot of features compared to wrapper frameworks.

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