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wxWidgets reviews and mentions

• Unveiling the wxWidgets License: A Deep Dive into Freedom, Fairness, and Flexibility
  1 project | dev.to | 12 Mar 2025

  The wxWidgets License stands as a testament to the open source community’s commitment to fairness and innovation. Its design facilitates smooth collaboration across borders and industries while offering developers the legal clarity needed to protect their contributions. The comprehensive review charted the license’s historical evolution, outlined its major strengths—including flexibility, transparency, and robust community engagement—and highlighted areas that require vigilance, such as potential exploitation in commercial contexts. For developers and project managers seeking an in-depth understanding of open source licensing, the detailed analysis presented in the original article (Unveiling wxWidgets License: A Comprehensive Summary, Exploration and Review) is a must-read. In the broader context of open source initiatives, where choices like the MIT License and other industry standards compete for attention, the wxWidgets License offers a well-rounded, community-focused alternative. In conclusion, the wxWidgets License reinforces the importance of a balanced legal framework designed to support innovation and fair compensation. As the technology landscape evolves, continual dialogue and legal revisions will be essential to maintain its relevance. For detailed explorations of licensing models and additional expert insights, check out related resources on wxWidgets and further reading on open source projects at Open Source Initiative. Happy coding, and may your projects thrive under licenses that value both freedom and fairness!

• Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
• Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
  14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023

  The Elixir programming language is no stranger to desktop applications as the language actually supports building them out of the box. It uses wxWidgets: a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. But wxWidgets has a very complex API, and doesn’t solve issues that usually come with desktop applications around packaging.

• WxWidgets – open-source C++ cross platform GUI
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2023

  Qt is also 100% open/free. In fact, both are available under the LGPL, just that wxWidgets also grants an exception to not have to distribute application sources even when statically linked:

  https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets#licence

• Need for GUIs for bioinformatic tools?
  3 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 17 Jun 2023

  But for big programs, ones written in C++? Good luck it won’t be easy at all. You might try wxwidgets or qt. I do not predict trying to click box-ify complex cli tools yielding much success.

• Create desktop application
  1 project | /r/dartlang | 29 May 2023

  In theory, you should be able to use FFI to interface with something like wxWindows, but you might again have problems on macOS, I don't know. And to me eyes, Wx looks a bit outdated.

• IUP – Cross platform C GUI library
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023

  This seems to be like the classic wxWidgets [1], i.e. it's an API that wraps the underlying platform's default toolkit. So on Windows it uses Windows' native controls, in Linux it seems to use GTK, and so on.

  That means that the advantage is being able to write against one API, and get cross-platform compatibility, which can be nice. It also means (typically) being limited in what you can do to the least common denominator, or you (=the toolkit author) end up having to re-implement features from one platform that you want to expose but that are missing on some supported target(s). Or, of course, have an API with non-portable parts in it.

  In any case, it means the "look and feel" is not the core feature of the API since that is going to be "like the target platform" and that is the point.

  Given the origin, I guess Lua support is important too, here.

  [1]: https://www.wxwidgets.org/

• Creating C++ windowed applications
  1 project | /r/programminghelp | 22 May 2023

  - So, I found wxWidgets. Which looked good. However, when I followed some tutorials I was getting errors. Even when I copied and pasted the tutorial code. Furthermore, the library still doesn't seem to simplify the process much.

• What does this icon belong to? I've seen it used in many pieces of software, but I never found out what it actually is from.
  1 project | /r/windows | 2 May 2023

  It is the icon for WXWidgets, a programming toolkit for making user interfaces that work on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

• Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023

  In general, people will use a cross-platform library to port such applications. While QT will likely never really stabilize (I'd flag it unsustainable), the https://www.wxwidgets.org/ is able to be statically linked into commercial and opensource projects at no cost without tripping GPL.

  "Hiring a senior C++ developer with GTK experience is costlier"

  I think you are confusing skill valuation, and operational productivity. Some have an erroneous notion talent is interchangeable. Likewise, applicants with identical base skill-sets on their CV often mistakenly believe they even have long-term employment options (outsourced, youth tax credit churn, and or senior wage suppression).

  Most FOSS people are easier to train, as most already can mitigate utter chaos already. =)

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