Hello,
When it comes to GUI toolkits in Julia, Gtk seems to be the main choice,
followed by Tk. At least in terms of development effort:
Gtk.jl -- 444 commits, 23 contributors
Tk.jl -- 235 commits, 28 contributors
PySide.jl -- 35 commits, 2 contributors
Although I like Gtk, I'm curious. Is there a reason Gtk gets more
attention? Maybe Tk is just easier to support, so it doesn't need as many
commits. But Tk also has less documentation. So I do get the impression Gtk
gets more attention. Why would Gtk or Tk be preferred in the context of
Julia?
My understanding is that Gtk is great on Linux but doesn't work so well on
Windows and Mac. Tk has historically been considered ugly ("looks like
Motif") but my impression is that this was fixed long ago. Gtk has more
widgets than Tk and I think also more inputs. Qt is supposed to be great on
other platforms. Are C++ toolkits more difficult to support? Oh, there is
no package for wxWidgets, and that's also a C++ toolkit. Maybe that's a
factor? Or maybe people just like the look of Gtk.
Cheers,
Daniel.
