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apparently QT has won and GTK+ has lost:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6565513
but also now HTML5 is coming:
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secstate 3 hours ago
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Hrumph ... should just port it to shoes[1] and be done with it. Just kidding, just kidding. But really, why can't we have an HTML5 layout engine for native applications?
1: https://github.com/shoes/shoes4
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jcheng 3 hours ago
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You can, that's our app[1] works; it's essentially a webapp hosted in a QtWebKit? widget. And Brackets[2] and Light Table[3] work similarly.
1: http://www.rstudio.com/ide/ 2: http://www.brackets.io/ 3: http://www.lighttable.com/
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someone also suggested XULRunner
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however:
" Miguel de Icaza October 17, 2013 at 9:31 am
Gtk+ on OSX does not require X11, you can compile it to support Cocoa directly.
Xamarin Studio is built entirely in this way, and this is what it looks like:
You can see more screenshots and videos in action here:
If you are still interested, we can show you how to bundle your own Gtk+ with WireShark? to have no external dependencies. '
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numerodix October 17, 2013 at 11:20 am
Vlc also ported from gtk to qt a few years ago. i’m not sure how the ui codebases compare in size.
