On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Juha Manninen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Erwin van den Bosch <[email protected]> wrote:
I have read enough! Forget GTK3 (and GTK4).
Yes, I also think they plan to break it too often. However I believe
it makes the API better.
Honestly, GTK 2 is not a very good API.
This is about balance between keeping things stable and improving things.
In Lazarus POW it is irrelevant because the bindings are needed anyway.
It is relevant: it costs time, better spent on other things.
After 32 years of graphical desktops on Unix we still have no stable widget
set! :-(
Xlib API is stable. The other widgetsets are also stable enough.
Think of it, both Xlib and Win32 APIs have been stable for a long
time. Which do you prefer:
1. Nice modern object oriented API which breaks sometimes to keep it clean.
2. Xlib and Win32 stable APIs for eternity.
I choose option number 1.
Then why does Microsoft choose 2 ?
They could have elected to throw out Win32 when they came with .NET.
Luckily they did not, many companies would be forced to stay with Windows 95
or NT 4 or somesuch if they hadn't.
Stability of your API is of the utmost importance.
As an example:
The web APIs of some of Microsoft's online platforms have changed 3 times in the last 2 years.
Each is slightly different from the next, and requires you to rework a lot of your code, for little gain.
People have better things to do than keeping up with changing APIs.
Michael.
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