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Rust GUI survey 2025 (www.boringcactus.com)
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[–] spartanatreyu 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No one is entitled to anything from open-source projects.

I never said anything contrary to this.

but Mac/mac (what is it now?) without hardware or VMware wasn’t fun

Letting MacOS users support MacOS hardware is generally easy when you already have BSD and/or busybox support already.

Windows support should always be seen as charity, not an obligation, for all [open source] projects where it’s not the primary target platform.

Ordinarily I'd agree, except these are GUI Libraries.

The whole point of them is to be a generic interface that prevents you from needing to use the platform specific APIs directly.

If GUI libraries aren't going to target the most widely used platforms, then why wouldn't the developer just use the platform specific APIs directly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

In reality Windows isn't the most widely used platform, not where it counts, among the developers of those libraries. And finding competent Windows developers to contribute also isn't easy while finding Windows users demanding support is quite easy since the factor of developers per user is so much worse on that platform.