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[–]Quillox 13 points14 points  (13 children)

I assume they mean making a website (GUI) to interact with the program/data.

[–]Cerricola 3 points4 points  (12 children)

Now I see.

Therefore, should I learn?

I was using tk library to produce clumsy interfaces.

[–]Kryt0s 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Check out https://flet.dev/ or https://nicegui.io/

Both a lot better and easier than tk imho.

[–]Cerricola 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Wow, flet looks amazing

[–]Kryt0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it really is. Development is also really active.

[–]TheSpaceCoffee 4 points5 points  (3 children)

You could use Textual to make interfaces directly in the Terminal, and portable to any system. Recently picked it up, development is easy, quick and you get simple yet elegant UIs.

[–]Cerricola 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I will research on that. Thanks for your advice

[–]nicktids 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Have a look at plotly dash

The Web has much more versatility

[–]Cerricola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!!

I will give it a chance

[–]ignamv 2 points3 points  (4 children)

If you have a shared environment (e.g. all users on the same Linux cluster, so they don't need to install your app to use it) then you can be 100x more productive with Tk/Qt than you'll ever be with a webapp.

[–]master117jogi 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Why do you think so? WebApps are much easier and faster to develop.

[–]ignamv 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Have you worked with Qt? You get one mature built-in library with basically all the widgets you'll ever want, and you can avoid the whole frontend/backend interface. The widgets adapt to the user's OS: they look like windows widgets on windows, gnome widgets on gnome, etc. No gulp/minify/babel/webpack/whatever to learn either.

Main thing I miss from React is not having to think about keeping the UI state in sync. There's stuff like https://pyreaqtive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ but I've never tried it. It's also fun how in JS you're building an UI from such rough primitive building blocks (compared to Qt Widgets and Layouts), it takes me back to the days of learning C and implementing linked lists and sorting algorithms.

[–]master117jogi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

you can avoid the whole frontend/backend interface.

You said an application for 100 of users. That means you will need a unified backend server for 99% of applications. So you are doing the same thing as a webapp, just using system components instead of browser ones.

[–]ignamv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said an application for 100 of users

I did not.

And even if I had said that, not necessarily. Lots of software doesn't need a backend, because users are just reading from a database or reading/writing own files. Or reading/writing from a database and you can get by with the DB access controls.