1000 GUI toolkits (was Re: Tkinter vs. wxPython)

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Wed Feb 23 23:11:45 EST 2000


In article <5l3dqjckt5.fsf_-_ at eric.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Guido van Rossum  <guido at cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:
>
>I've always said, with chairman Mao, "let 1000 flowers bloom" -- there
>aren't quire 1000 different GUI toolkits, so there's still room for a
>few more.  In the mean time, it's likely that the big three will be
>Tkinter, wxPython and gtk.  (I haven't really used gtk yet -- for now
>it sounds too Linux-centric even though it has a Windows port).

You skipped one: HTML

(Okay, so I'm half-joking.  But I really do have a strong preference for
HTML as my UI of choice, not least because it allows a text-based
interface.)
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