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Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development?

Posted by Soulskill on from the won't-somebody-think-of-the-penguins dept.

jfruhlinger writes "In a world where 'app' is the new buzzword, the development of native Linux apps is lagging. Some of this can be attributed to the usual community infighting (the latest version of which is argument about Ubuntu's Unity interface), but there may be something deeper at play: Linux advocates have for so long advocated browser-accessed software as a service as a way to break out of Microsoft's proprietary desktop. Now that this world has arrived, there's less incentive to work on native Linux apps. But of course, entrusting your functionality and data to a cloud provider like Google has its own set of concerns for free software fans."

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  1. Re:Native GUI app development is a pain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Qt Creator works well with C++ and Python, I'd call those both pretty mainstream.

  2. Re:Native GUI app development is a pain by Ogi_UnixNut · · Score: 4, Informative

    wxglade works well with me, and being XML based can work with any language you want (and uses native widgets on all the OS'es, so it always looks well integrated). I use it with Python primarily, but it should work for anything (look on their site for officially supported languages).

    Have a look here if you're interested: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

  3. Re:Native GUI app development is a pain by characterZer0 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Eclipse, Netbeans and Java.

    As a bonus, your programs will work on Windows too.

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