On 09/01/2021 15:49, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 12:46:48 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2021 12:25, Pancho wrote:
>>> On 07/01/2021 04:07, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh. reverse for me. couldn't write an X window program to save my
>>>> life. Quite happy to design stuff in html and javascript tho
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yeah, I didn't mean X, or even rather comically Curses. I meant:
>>> WinForms, WPF, Swing as opposed to: Angular or React. Even Asp.Net was
>>> much harder than WinForms.
>>
>> never heard of any of them. I guess they are Windows junk,
>
> Curses is purest C - it sits on top of the termcap functions and adds
> capabilities like pop-up subwindows
>
> Swing (and AWT) are Java graphics packages included in the standard class
> library, available since at least Java 2. They are fairly high level
> classes, implementing buttons, menus, scrollable resizable windows etc.
> as well as a mouse interface.
>
>
>
Never used java. Runtime is enormous...I know curses.

Looked at gtk toolkit and decided learning curve too big. And web and
browser based was in fact more portable than native code


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