<story><title>Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros</title><url>http://serv.peterme.net/devlog/cross-platform-guis-and-nim-macros.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>In 2012 I could pack a whole Python interpreter, Qt and various image-processing libraries into an InnoSetup installer that just-so scratched the 12 MB mark; I doubt this has changed significantly.&lt;p&gt;Contrary to what the linked (more interesting) survey article suggests, Qt &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; usually the answer to most issues when it comes to cross-platform UI.&lt;p&gt;Gtk is not bad, but Gtk is what it is: it was created because Qt couldn&amp;#x27;t be used for licensing concerns (at the time) by people unexperienced with the matter (compared to the Trolltech staff), and is maintained by people who, for the most part, care about Linux. Qt on the other hand is supported commercially, and puts far more effort into supporting more platforms better. [Also the tooling and docs are really nice].</text></comment>
<story><title>Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros</title><url>http://serv.peterme.net/devlog/cross-platform-guis-and-nim-macros.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>norswap</author><text>Why does the fact that GTK &amp;quot;looks non-native on Windows&amp;quot; disqualify it? If it&amp;#x27;s pretty enough for Linux, isn&amp;#x27;t also good enough for Windows? (Also my personal opinion is that it doesn&amp;#x27;t look too bad.)</text></comment>