An actual good GUI library. Many suggestions for UI libraries are things like crsfml with ImGUI or something, and that isn’t accessibility to individuals with disabilities such as myself, which is very saddening.
Complete windows support (possibly with full bindings to the win32 API? I would do this myself, but I’m struggling to figure out the winmd format – it’s so unnecessarily complicated…).
A C bindings generator and/or a way of binding standalone C header files to Crystal would be great to see (pun intended).
I’m new to Crystal and am slowly learning it, but I like the syntax and how simple it is.
@ethindp The GTK bindings are working well to write desktop apps (win, mac, linux). I haven’t tried the QT bindings yet (that would allow to also target mobiles). See gobject@0.10.0 on Shardbox (gtk3) and gtk4@0.17.0 on Shardbox for starters.
You can already use Crystal on Windows and write Windows applications in Crystal: most of everything is working (huge shootout to @HertzDevil).
GTK is a great choice for Mac and Linux, but is surprisingly tedious to use on Windows. I wonder if anyone has had success creating GTK apps for Windows using Crystal?
A bit uncertain what/who your replying to, my self, but the inaccessibility of GTK4 on win32 is at least true. (If I’m confusing your post with something else, apologies. :))
Perhaps the only thing I disagree with. Rails is a luxury prison for ruby. It’s already on the decline, one day it will effectively die and take ruby with it. A good language should have good apps, but also be reasonably independent of them. All long lasting languages are like this
I agree with you. I’d like to see a hassle free GUI library.
I have been working on it. You can test out what I’ve been working on for a 1.0 release. Keep in mind you will need to use the development/winmd branch to test. The master branch utilizes my first attempt at a win32 bindings. The development branch can build bindings on the fly .GitHub - mjblack/win32cr at development/winmd
I kind of like the way Zig does this where you can include a C header into your code. If Crystal had something like that then it would simplify creating bindings.
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