qtpy VS kiwi

Compare qtpy vs kiwi and see what are their differences.

qtpy

Provides an uniform layer to support PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6, PySide6 with a single codebase (by spyder-ide)

kiwi

Efficient C++ implementation of the Cassowary constraint solving algorithm (by nucleic)
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qtpy kiwi
5 2
928 656
3.1% 1.4%
8.2 5.6
8 days ago 4 days ago
Python C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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qtpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of qtpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-07.

kiwi

Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-11.
  • Declarative User Interfaces with constraints-based layout engine for Python
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2022
    Nucleic also makes Kiwi one of the fastest Cassowary Constraint implementations. It is very useful for implementing custom GUIs as it can make building internal component layouts and general layout systems fairly straightforward and it’s very performant.

    I highly encourage taking a look at it and it has also been ported to a wide range of language.

    I’m using Nim kiwi with my own GUI library now. I’ll have to take a peak at how enaml is using kiwi for its layouts.

    https://kiwisolver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

    https://github.com/alexbirkett/kiwi-java

    https://github.com/PongoEngine/jasper

    https://github.com/yglukhov/kiwi

  • Luau Goes Open-Source
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2021
    If any of the Luau devs are watching this, please flesh out the metamethods. I'd switch almost everything to Luau if they were improved.

    They're the biggest PITA right now as designed in PUC-Rio, and I see that while you've improved upon __eq, other metamethods are still lacking.

    In PUC-Rio, boolean equality operators FORCE a boolean result, regardless of what you return. Ideally they would allow returning any result type, which then can be coerced to boolean later (e.g. by an `if` statement), just like the arithmetic operators do.

    Further, `__neq`, `__ge` and `__gt` do not exist. They should.

    The lack of a proper metamethod design means that binding to e.g. Kiwi[0] is impossible without some incredibly fugly hacks. It has been a long-standing annoyance with Lua in an otherwise beautiful little scripting language (that I use frequently).

    This looks quite nice - lots of attempts in this space but nothing that attempts to match Lua to this degree.

    [0] https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi

What are some alternatives?

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Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

PySimpleGUI - Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018 and actively developed, maintained, and supported in 2024. Transforms tkinter, Qt, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.

Qt.py - Minimal Python 2 & 3 shim around all Qt bindings - PySide, PySide2, PyQt4 and PyQt5.

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