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by ltbarcly3 43 days ago
I think AI coding has made these "we dumb down a real UI framework for you" libraries obsolete. Anyone can get a GTK or QT app up and running now. This isn't a criticism, they were very useful to build GUIs in the past, but now they are just obsolete and more likely to introduce bugs or limitations you can't work around than to help much.
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sinpif 42 days ago
Taken to an extreme, what's stopping us from going back to C? The security issues will be found and resolved, performance will be great and it will compile on all platforms that ever existed.
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ltbarcly3 42 days ago
well I think C is just a bad Rust now so yes, I think everything is going to get rewritten in rust.
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lmm 42 days ago
> The security issues will be found and resolved

Will they though?

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marshray 42 days ago
Is this a new form of gatekeeping?

I.e., "too human-friendly to survive in the presence of The Great AI™".

If so, where does that lead us?

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ltbarcly3 42 days ago
These libraries are not more human friendly. Humans can write GTK or win32 or QT or Cocoa code just fine. GUI frameworks are very complex and often have very in depth setup code that is required. It requires a huge investment to get an app up and running with a GUI framework, and AI makes setting that up approachable when it was a real challenge before.

Have you ever written GUI code using one of the big GUI frameworks?

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PapstJL4U 42 days ago
I, not the previous writer, have and PSG did exactly this. It made writting compact GUIs for smaller projects manageable without going into the deeps of GTK, win32 or QT.

I tried a bunch of Frameworks and some were easier (PSG, Kivi) and others much harder.

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hereme888 42 days ago
That's an aggressively negative over-interpretation of OP. Clearly not what was meant.
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