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pjmlptoday at 8:55 AM1 replyview on HN

If you mean due to lack of C++ for doing GUIs, Google and Microsoft have also long left C++ to the dust, in what concerns GUI frameworks.

Even Microsoft, for all its C++ use, has never produced anything better than MFC to this day, and only Windows team cares about XAML C++, others rather use React Native or Webview2 alongside C++.

It is up to third parties to use frameworks like Qt.


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isodevtoday at 10:59 AM

I mean specific APIs and targets are required to be written in Swift (e.g. widgets) + iOS/macOS dev tooling is hostile to any attempt at bringing in your own preferred language stack. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's "glasses" or other tiny devices make it even harder to stray from the "one true path".

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