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Making GUIs, how do you pick?
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What language are your apps written in? Generally the best options are:
There's also Flutter which is pretty nice, but again you have to use Dart for the GUI so if the rest of your app is in another language you'll have some friction.
But yeah, I would say the language you want to write your "business logic" in is the biggest factor to choosing. Also if you care about exposing your app over the web.
I'm a bit if a python guy but I'm split between java and up and coming rust for employment purposes.
For rust I use iced, as it meets all my needs and is a delight to work in. I don't think it's good for making graphs though. For graphs I heard that people like matplotlib (in python), which you can also use inside PyQt apps. I've tried using matplotlib and did not enjoy the experience at all, but I don't know of any alternatives.
For Python PyQt is the obvious choice. For Rust there isn't really a mature option yet. Egui is decent, but it's immediate mode which isn't to everyone's taste. Dioxus is pretty popular too but I haven't used it.
No idea for Java. Is Swing still the standard?