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Piotr Gaczkowski

Do you build desktop apps?

I wonder how many of you are building desktop applications. I assume most are interested in Web/mobile/SaaS. I'm currently finishing a desktop app, and it turns out packaging it for Windows and Mac OS X is a separate branch of knowledge altogether!

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Jakob Greenfeld

I personally like the combination of PyQT and PyInstaller

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Piotr Gaczkowski Author

Seems good, though the third-party component I use is written in C++ which makes PyQt quite a challenge :/

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Veit Progl

I haven't created my first desktop app yet. But it is something that I have planed as my next project. I already develop my app with Swift UI and Swift UI 2 looks very promising for desktop apps.

I don't have any experience with cross platform desktop apps, but I can conform that both platforms have totally different publishing workflows

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Piotr Gaczkowski Author

Yeah, that's what I'm just learning :)

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Oleg Gera

SwiftUI is great, I've built McPiper a few months ago using SwiftUI. There were a few issues especially around docs and online help, but overall it was easy to use.

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Peter Bertel

I haven't built a desktop app yet, but I've heard Electron is a really great framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript: https://www.electronjs.org/

I think it's got a great track record too, Slack and Visual Studio Code were built with Electron!

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Piotr Gaczkowski Author

I'm aware of Electron and have used it in the past. However, I'm not very fond of it. The resources required to run a single instance of an application are way too big.

But that doesn't mean it isn't useful for some projects.

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