• teolan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They dix not build the compositor from scratch, they built it on top of smithay, a library similar to wlroots but written in Rust.

    I don’t know if you’ve actually tried to use GTK or QT, but it’s insanely painful. There is a reason almost all apps are written in Electron. Native GUI toolkits suck. If they had used GTK they would have still had an outdated and hard to maintain toolkit, and to deal with Gnome politics. Using GTK was actually the initial idea.

    If we want Linux Desktop to succeed, at some point we have to build tools that people want to use. I’m glad they’re doing it.

    • AProfessional@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I have written apps in those toolkits. I can’t say it’s easier than the web of course but it’s not that bad.