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Flutter
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Open source
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Still in development
According to the website, Flutter is still in its early stages of development.
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Great developer tools debug/hotreload/analyser
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers. BUT if you have to learn it ... it's a con.
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers.
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Dart is unpopular and never gained serious community traction like Kotlin or Java
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A single codebase for iOS AND Android
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Does not support 32-bit iOS devices
If you plan on targeting iPhone 5, 5C or earlier, you can forget about Flutter.
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Fast
The developer's goal is to allow people to make apps running at 120 FPS.
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Google has a bad history with product loyalty
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Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac and Linux
Desktop targets:
announced Windows
Mobile targets:
Android and iOS
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Dart
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ASP.NET Core
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Fast and getting faster
Thanks to breakthroughs in ROSLYN compiler and the efforts of the .NET COre developer team, code written in C# can reach speeds just a step behind C++.
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Microsoft environment
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Multi platform
Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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JSON optimization
In .NET Core 2.1 and 3.0, new APIs are added that make it possible to write JSON APIs that require less memory, using Span<T> and UTF8 strings, and improve throughput of applications like Kestrel, ASP.NET Core web server. See also Utf8JsonReader.
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Tutorials and documentation quality
Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.
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Built-in middleware
Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.
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Hosting
Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
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Ease of Use
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Security
It is a very secure platform.
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Tooling
Both VS and VSCode are powerful free IDEs that are well integrated with ASP.net Core. VS Community also allows for commercial use for projects with less than 5 developers.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker
Written in:
C#
Default ORM:
Entity Framework
Visual GUI Builder:
Yes
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Xojo
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Easy to use
Easy to make compiled native apps.
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Subscription-based/Not free
Using this product you're betting the company will still be around. If they get bought out by an enterprise that wants to use the tech internally, all they need to do is stop offering subscriptions and suddenly you're scrambling to rebuild your entire app on other technology.
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No Android support
They plan to eventually support Android, but for now, they only support iOS.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Pi, Web,iOS
Visual GUI Builder:
Yes
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B4X
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15
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Create easy, fast cross-platform views with less code
B4XUI custom views are designed, by Erel and other forum members, exactly with this in mind; custom views that act and feel exactly the same no matter what platform you target.
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Java-dependent Desktop Development
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Powerful general purpose programming tool
As mentioned in its website, "With B4X, anyone who wants to, can develop real-world solutions."
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Only for Windows
The IDE, while very handy, only runs on Windows. If you want to code on Mac or Linux, you have to install it on a virtual machine. But you can debug your app by running it on the target OS.
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A very active forum where you can find any issue you have, and quick answers to new ones
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The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date
The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date.
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A highly motivated program author who is very active in the forums
Erel Uziel is simply the most pro-active Soft-Creator/Forum Manager you will ever come across. If it has not yet been asked & answered, just ask and you will be answered withing minutes, and thanks to it being a trully international forum, this is achieved 24h/7d.
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For BASIC language lovers
Lots of people are not fans of BASIC-like languages. Enjoyment of B4X, may depend on having a background or affinity for BASIC.
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Very easy to use and powerful for IoT
Support for Bluetooth/BLE, MQTT, TCP/UDP, Serial, NFC, Websockets, HTTP/2 across platforms makes it the ideal tool for IoT projects.
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Can still need deep knowledge of Java
Attempts to provide BASIC-like language that is more comfortable for a certain demographic of users, but various circumstances will still require knowledge of Java. "No free lunch".
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Live code swapping
A huge productivity boost when you can run your apps on the devices and make code changes real time without needing to recompile.
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Lack of B4W real Web app
Erel needs to make a real Web app designer.
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No complexities compared with other tools
No need to learn JAVA, C+, PHP, or any other complementary languages in order to achieve exactly what you need.
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The best all round
Produces highly optimised end results. Easy to use and quick to learn. When you know how to produce an Android app you near enough know how to produce an IOS app. The fact that there are subtle differences between writing for different platforms is a huge plus - those differences help optimise your code and they're really not difficult to wrap your head round.
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Erel has much passion for his tool
The speed of answer topics is amazing.
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Many informative video tutorials
The tutorials help beginners as well as more experienced programmers grasping important concepts.
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Many code examples of fully working apps for free
The Forum is filled with many code examples of fully working apps for free. Code snippets, animation, different type of views etc. can be easily downloaded and used in your own app.
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Large user community
Over the years it has built up a very active user community that is very involved in the evolution of B4X. In their forums you can find any answer to your questions, and if it is not there, they will answer you.
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RAD
VERY Rapid Application Development, with tons of pro features.
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Tightly integrated framework
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Almost everything is free and complete
Except the IDE for iOS. Even so it's very cheap.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Raspberry Pi, Arduino
License:
Apache License 2.0
Languages:
B4X
Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac (via VM), Linux (via VM), Web
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Sciter
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Multi language
Support for C++, C#, Delphi, D, Go, Rust, Powerbuilder. See Go bindings on GitHub. The binding for C# on GitHub, SciterSharp does not seem to be free: in a commercial product you should acquire a commercial license.
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Linux version is not very mature
The Linux version is missing HTML/CSS features when compared to the Windows version.
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Lightweight
Only a single native DLL.
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Not fully HTML5 compliant
Lacking HTML5 functionality and W3C standards: grabbing a library like JQuery or Bootstrap and use it in Sciter will not work.
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Not WYSIWYG
Not WYSIWYG like WebForms or WPF.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Supported languages:
C++, C#, Delphi, D, Go, Rust, PowerBuilder
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NW.js (w/xvfb)
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Node integration
The integration of Node with the DOM in NW.js opens up a number of new options in how your headless testing workflow can be facilitated. The distinct separation of JavaScript contexts, the introduction of a separate node context, and the ability to cross communicate, offers a lot of power and flexibility.
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xvfb Requirement (for now)
Headless is on the NW.js roadmap, but for now xvfb is necessary to get going. The community has done the work and you can find the details here.
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NaCl support/integration
Access to the Native Client offers up more options in implementing your testing workflow.
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Supported languages:
JS, [third party modules:C#,C++Web Assembly]
Integrated Debugger:
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Tk
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Easy styling
Once you understand how to style, the styling can look great.
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Base looks are garbage without a good amount of styling
Going with the base look for your app is a bad idea because it looks like garbage with the defaults.
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Great for beginners
Easy to pick up and run with it.
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C# support lacking
Although the Eagle Project exists, which offers Mono and .NET Core support, C# support is not standard.
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Easy and good looking in Mac, Linux and Windows
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Bindings for several languages
Bindings for Python, C, C++, Ruby, Perl, Go, Java, Haskell and more, see Languages with a Tk binding.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac
License:
BSD
Current stable version:
8.6
Popular Language Bindings:
Tcl Python
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QtCreator/Qt
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Visual GUI designer
QtCreator has QtDesigner component, allowing you to design a GUI in visual mode instead of raw code.
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Vendor lock on QtCreator
It's not simple at all to use Qt in a different IDE, and you'll lose QtDesigner.
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Ready-made classes for most used tasks in desktop app development
Launching external applications, getting environment variables, putting tasks to separate threads, offscreen painting, transparent loading of most used image formats, even such helpers as opening files in default application configured in OS, cross-platform (!).
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Big overhead
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Cross platform
Qt supports most popular platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. This allows developers to easily port applications to different platforms.
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Fyne
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Mobile support
Android and iOS are supported.
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Go specific
Fyne is only usable in Go applications.
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Easy to learn
Simple and consistent API.
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Permissively licensed
Fyne is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, which has fairly lax restrictions on usage.
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Lara
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Cross-Platform
Can develop in Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Server-side rendering engine
Lara has a server-side rendering engine with virtual DOM.
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Open Source
Apache 2.0 license.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
License:
Open Source Apache 2.0
Size:
72KB
Dev platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
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Quasar Framework
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Uses Vue.js 2.0
Vue 3.x available as a plugin.
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Developed by a single person
Statistically, apps being developed by a single person can be gone without warning.
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Good documentation and coding samples
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Massive suite of well test & optimized widgets
Instant rebuild for SPA, PWA, Cordova or Electron with Material/iOS Themes.
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Designed from the outset for desktop & mobile
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Can build/test your PWA with/without PWA wrapper
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Supports server side rendering (SSR) like Nuxt + SSR/PWA
"Icon genie" builds app icons and splash images for platforms selected.
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Ability to add custom server side code when using SSR
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Web
License:
MIT
Mobile targets:
Android, Blueberry, iOS, Windows Phone, Web
Supported languages:
Javascript, Typescript
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Prima
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Thorough documentation
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Old-looking by default
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Open source
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No mobile support
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Stable
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Easy to use
Great for beginners and gurus alike.
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Relatively compact codebase
167K SLOC in 2022.
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Consistent look and behavior across platforms
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Visual builder included
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Free/gratis
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BSD license
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Mature
Since 2001 on CPAN website.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Solaris and others
License:
2-Clause BSD License
Implemented in:
C, Perl
Target language:
Perl
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Proton native
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Open source
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Not popular
Not being popular as electron js, its development isn't quite at the same pace.
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Uses native tools
Not running a browser to manage the GUI, it uses less resources than the alternatives.
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No styling
Being based on libui, CSS styling isn't available.
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No chromium
Is not based on chromium.
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vuido
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Package standalone final application with Launchui-packager
Launchui packager.
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Limited set of built-in UI components
Also the components do not expose all the properties available to the underlying HTML widget. This could be because it is still under development.
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Free and Open Source
Source can be found here.
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Build native desktop applications on OSX, Windows and Linux
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wxWidgets
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Mature
wxWidgets was started in 1992 by Julian Smart.
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Android port not totally usable yet
See WxAndroid.
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Truly native look and feel
It uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI.
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Uses GTK on X11
WxWidgets uses GTK+ on X11 desktop which well known for looking like an alien on non GTK+ desktops.
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Open source
wxWidgets can be used for free or commercial projects, at no cost.
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Has slightly heavy compiled result
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Can do custom control rendering
You can make a custom renderer using the class wxDelegateRendererNative to draw directly any standard control or using the class BackgroundWindow to use any bitmap as a control background.
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Written in C++
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Forms designers
Several forms designers, like wxFormBuilder, are available.
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Designer
A very nice designer: wxCrafter. Free for non-commercial use/evaluation phase (without time expiration). Highly recommended if you plan to use wxWidgets.
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Perfect combination: wxFormBuilder + ZeroBrane (wxLua)
Lua Language can provide extra high level scripting
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Can use Qt on X11
WxQt is available on X11.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, Solaris, AIX, OS2
Popular Language Bindings:
wxPython, wxLua, wxRuby, more...
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Tkinter
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Free for commercial use
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No advanced widgets
TkInter does not come with advanced widgets out of the box (e.g. date picker).
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Included in the standard Python library
You probably already have it, since it's included in the standard Python distributions.
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Not good looking
You need a lot of code to make it look good.
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Easy to learn and get productive with
TkInter is a small library with a gentle learning curve compared to what’s out there. It has a straightforward API and is often the go-to choice for building quick GUIs for Python scripts.
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No reliable UI builder available
There is no tool in the same league as Qt Designer (PyQt) for TkInter.
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Building executables is less complicated
Compared to other GUI libraries, building executables for TkInter applications are simpler because TkInter is included in Python and has no other dependencies. This results in less complicated packaging requirements and smaller binary size.
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Fast
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FLTK
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Simplicity
It's simple design and lack of more advanced C++ features makes it easy for beginners.
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Can be too simple for some projects
FLTK offers far fewer widgets than most other toolkits.
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Fast
Well-designed widgets, coded with careful attention to rendering/execution speed.
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Does not look like a native application
Because it uses non-native widgets, it doesn't look like a native application on any platform.
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Stable
FLTK code developed more than 10 years ago still compiles and runs perfectly, without changes.
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Lightweight
Uses a limited and lightweight design and restricts itself to solely GUI functionality. Because of this restriction, the FLTK hello world example is only about 100 KiB.
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GUI designer
Fast Light User-Interface Designer (FLUID) included.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Languages:
C++, Haskell, Rust, Ruby, Lua, Perl, Python
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Ultimate++
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Visual designer
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Strictly C++
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Simple to use
The whole framework is easy to use.
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This is an application development framework not simply a GUI toolkit / library API
It is designed for you to develop your whole application using it, not just your GUI. Most people probably are not really looking for that.
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Documentation and help tool
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Code analyzer
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Easy to learn
The whole framework is easy to learn thanks to multiple tutorials.
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Free
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Helpful community
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Godot
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Fully dedicated 2D engine, no hacks
Godot has a mature 2D engine with many features used by modern 2D games.
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Primarily supports own language (GD Script)
Although C# is also supported by Godot, it is only supported by a separate version, and Mono must be downloaded separately. While GDScript is very accessible, and if you know Python you'll pick it up fast, having to learn a new language to fully make use of the platform can be a bit discouraging. And for those learning to code as well as learning Godot for the first time, many would rather learn a language they can 'take with them' when they explore other platforms in the future.
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Lightweight
The executable is portable and less than 40 MB in size.
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C++ Engine API not very friendly
The base C++ code from Godot is not documented, it's hard to set it up, to compile and hard to extend, it could use better programming standards.
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Under constant development
This engine barely released one year ago has more than 1000 forks on github and about 100 developers. Not only that just a bit of browsing trough issues you will quickly find out the dev community loves new esp free technology and does not shy away from completely rewriting parts of the engine. The audio engine is being completely rewritten to use threads and so forth.
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Annoying minor bugs
Minor bugs can go unaddressed for some time, due to it being a free program.
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User friendly UI for all your team
Non-programmers (musicians, artists, etc) can join the development easily.
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GDScript is quite immature language
GDScript is copy of python and the real problem is, it is not python. Which means it cannot have all the power and new features that is available in Python or other programming language. It does have some good features but it is not good enough for what you need if you want to deep dive into game development. You can just feel that by the godot team is solving that matter by supporting mono version. Because C# is popular in other game engine and it contains all the new features that is available from new programming language. If i give you very simple example for why GDScript is immature, GDScript does not support asynchronous programming. Which is very efficient for performance of your game. You may mention about multi-threading because asynchronous programming is one way of multi-threading. However If you try that in Godot, you cannot multi-threading where you want to implement asynchronous system. For example, Autoload (Fake singleton) where you want to manage data in real time. Autoload is not real singleton. It is not a separated thread that manage data. Therefore everything is synchronous in autoload. Even though you create new thread from Autoload script, your game will just stop and wait for your thread to finish its task...
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Free and open source
Godot is licensed under MIT license. Anyone can grab the source from here, and compile the engine themselves.
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Godot 3/4 split
The recent release of Godot 4 brings new features, but isn't yet fully documented, and performance may not be as optimized.
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Editor and runtime are fully cross-platform
You can run Godot on all 3 major operating systems (Windows/Mac/Linux) and build your game to all available platforms from each without any platform-specific work needed. All platforms including Linux are supported first class.
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No console targets
Given that you can target both desktops and consoles with the same code base in other engines, the lack of support for consoles in Godot is pretty hard to get past if targeting desktops for a game. But asking for an open-source engine to target consoles is probably too much to ask. But it would be interesting to see some legacy consoles targeted even if current ones cannot be.
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Can be deployed to multiple platforms
Deploy games to desktops (Windows/OS X/Linux), smartphones (iOS/Android/BlackBerry), and the web (HTML5 via Emscripten).
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It's hard to learn
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Drag & drop interface
Many parts of the editor allow you to drag & drop, which makes working with assets and scene trees a joy.
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Difficult to optimize
Godot has an OOP architecture. Everything is an object internally and data is spread among many classes, thus it's difficult to optimize (i.e. not cache friendly, difficuly to vectorize or paralellize, etc). Read about "Data Oriented Design" for more info about the problems and solutions.
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The list of supported languages is growing
Officially, Godot supported languages for now will be GDScript, C#(Mono), VisualScript and C++.
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Strange terminology at its base
Scenes can be made up of other scenes. That makes some sense. But even the smallest object (or prefab or asset) in a scene -- such as that spoon on the table or the marble on the floor -- is still called a scene... except when it's called a node. This is a bit odd for those coming from other engines. With all the great decisions behind the basic design of this engine, the choice of this term from all the potential other terms out there seems really out of place and only serves as a constant reminder that not everything about Godot is great.
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Integrated animation editor
Every property can be animated.
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No built-in way to import atlases
Godot does not have an easy and automatic way to import atlases created by other tools. However, there are plugins that can be used to import atlases from other engines.
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Built-in physics
Add physics to 2D and 3D scenes, through rigid and static bodies, characters, raycasts, vehicles and more.
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2DPhysics is weak compared to Box2d
Box2d has much more features.
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Unified game editor interface
All the game development work is done inside one program: the engine editor. The scripting is done in the same program. No need for Eclipse or other front-end editors.
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NoAdmob or other AdNetwork support
Godot has no native support for implementing advertisements into your game.
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Instancing and node concept makes sense
The node and the instancing concept work very well and helps developers to structure content efficiently.
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Many buggy and half-finished features
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Fun to use
An important aspect that can't be grasped without using the engine for a few days. The Interface is evolving nicely and making games is just fun.
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Hard for a Unity user
Coming from a Unity background, Godot engine is hard.
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Internationalization of the editor
You can change the language shown in menus. Godot translations can be found here.
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Easy to learn scripting language
Godot has their own scripting language called GDScript. The scripting language is easy to learn with Python-like syntax, but it is not Python. It's very powerful, easy to learn, and it's free of unnecessary things because it was custom built for optimized integration with the Godot Engine. It can be used to add custom behaviors to any object by extending it with scripting, using the built-in editor with syntax highlighting and code completion. A built-in debugger with breakpoints and stepping can be used and graphs for possible bottlenecks can be checked.
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Really good community
The community is great and really cares about the engine. It is easy to get help and to be part of Godot's future.
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Creating editor tools is a breeze
Godot Engine is itself a Godot game. By adding the "tool" keyword to the top of a script, you can design extensions for the editor itself INSIDE the editor. Integrating these editor scripts into a bundled plugin for sharing is extremely easy to do.
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Friendly towards Version Control Systems
The engine is build not only to support version control but to really use it. Scene files for example which usually get compiled into some sort of unreadable data stay in a text format - that way you can actually see your changes in a version control system like Git.
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Doesn't need to be installed into the system
Godot is very portable, you can download the file from a website then put it on a USB and run it on your other computer without any troublesome errors.
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Easily expanded scripting system
With 3.0's addition of NativeScript and PluginScript via GDNative, developers can easily define bindings for new scripting languages. In addition to the primarily supported C++, GDScript, VisualScript, and C# languages, the community has contributed D, Nim, and Python as well with more on the way.
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Incredible documentation after 3.2.2 beta
The documentation used to be weak, but now we have nathen with his help the documentation is the strongest advantage.
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Scene Based editing
Godot gives you the ability to create scenes to make your life easier, with reusable objects and things you want to incorporate in your games. This makes the game making processvery streamlined and organized.
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Built-in documentation linked to the internal ScriptEditor
The editor has a fully searchable index of class API documentation for everything the engine offers (NOT just a web interface). You can easily open the documentation for any class by Ctrl-clicking the class's name in the in-engine text editor for scripts.
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Simple and readable codebase
The engine's source code is easy to read and understand with a self-documenting approach to code design. You don't have to wait months or years for other people to fix an engine bug that is important to your game. Often times, you can spend an hour or two of your own time to fix whatever problems you encounter yourself.
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Easy to get involved
No need to learn anything with node, you can build a game without typing a line of code + has visual scripting.
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Engine is yours
There is no royalty and the game you made + engine itself is yours.
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Can be installed on Steam
You can easily install Godot via the Steam store.
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Comprehensive tooling
In addition to the scene editor and the script editor (with debugger), the engine also provides a tile map editor, an animation editor (not just for rigs), a performance monitor, a network profiler, and an audio bus console.
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It has a visual scripting tool (Godot 3)
It has a great visual scripting tool. It's a great choice if you don't like to code. This was however removed in Godot 4, so you will need to use the (still supported) Godot 3 branch for visual scripting.
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GDScript, C#, C++
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Language bindings
Supports a lot of languages like Java, Javascript, C++, Python, Pascal, FreeBasic and Haskell, but support for languages like C# and GO is only partial.
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Sucks for traditional applications
GTK3 added CSD widgets and added a lot of paddings to make widgets bigger for touchscreen use, GTK4 also even removed Menubar and Toolbar widgets.
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Nicer user interface when using PyGi
Creating cross platform enterprise apps with PyGi and with the help of Gtk Themes makes them look great.
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No menuicons or mnemonics
Gtk3 has removed the support of icons and mnemonics making navigating menus just terrible for the use with a keyboard. Sure there are some hacks to make them working again but they will never work as they did/do work in Windows, GTK2 or QT.
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Working with GTK focused Vala is great
Vala is made to make GTK easy [as well as for other things] and it really does, and makes it easier than working with C/C++, Python, or any other,
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Terrible integration
Looks and feels like an alien on all other platforms than GNOME.
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Promotes Wayland as the standard X11 server on Unix
Lets face it, Wayland is not a replacement for XORG since Wayland works currently only in GNOME and there are many issues. Some desktops and window managers will never get ported to Wayland and it is not available to all Unix and Unix-like systems. X11 on the other hand is available for almost everything, so it will be available for the next decade or even longer.
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