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[Russell Shaw]

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote:
> Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au> writes:
> 
>> Dirk De Becker wrote:
>>> Tom,

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>> Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide
>> all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged
>> sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really
>> nontrivial running this month.
> 
> I think opinions are somewhat divided on that point.
> 
> A good toolkit lets you do pretty much anything you want with much less
> work, and no significant performance cost.  (Frequently with higher
> performance, as someone has probably spent a fair bit of effort
> investigating how to get optimal performance out of the underlying
> system.)

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What i really meant was "Forget existing widget toolkits". One can write
their own that is much better than the existing ones, if you architect the
thing right. Doing that is not a small job. Takes a lot of time just to
think about before even writing any code.