Wouldn't using Kotlin Native to develop desktop GU...
# kotlin-nativem
molikto
03/27/2018, 7:41 AMWouldn't using Kotlin Native to develop desktop GUI be nice? Or in the future all GUI will be in Javascript?
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olonho
03/27/2018, 6:45 PMCannot speak on the future, but in the present one may develop desktop GUI apps with K/N easily
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napperley
03/28/2018, 9:51 PMSurprised that easily was mentioned. Is there really a easy to use GUI lib/toolkit that works seamlessly with Kotlin Native without any major interop issues?
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gildor
04/02/2018, 1:02 AMIt shouldn’t be problem to interop with C.
For me bigger problem is work with pure C GUI framework doesn’t looks as an easy thing, especially if you never did this before
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napperley
04/02/2018, 1:51 AMAs I have discovered lately doing interop with C is not that straightforward when encountering corner cases (eg creating items via ncurses).
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gildor
04/02/2018, 1:53 AMI believe you, sure, but it can be solved maybe in the future versions of K/N (make sense to create an issue for K/N tho)
But you cannot fix pure C API without writing own wrapper.
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olonho
04/02/2018, 6:44 AMthat's true, so writing ideomatic Kotlin wrappers around C libraries is the way to go
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