I stumbled on Webview (https://github.com/webview/webview) as an option, which uses web technology for the UI in a way I hadn't even considered, and results in a tiny package and tiny executable with few extra dependencies. Web tech is very accessible. Plenty fast, runs everywhere (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, mobile, BSDs, all seemingly have Webview support out of the box or via a single package install) with minor tweaks. And, web browsers don't break backward compatibility.

Still considering my options.

So, I was planning to focus on packaging, documentation, and getting this thing published this weekend, but, I think I'm actually going to use the time to rebuild the UI in something else. Slint has a kinda cranky license, but seems to have a tiny runtime and looks great. Dear Imgui is not really accessible (not super relevant for a drawing program maybe, but if I'm learning a new thing, I want to be able to make accessible software with it, it's the minimal bar for a GUI toolkit, IMHO).

«solo un pensiero: mia madre; mia madre, al terremoto, gli ha fatto un culo così.»

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@Lucatermite ahahahah sei peggio di una trottola 😛😁
Buona serata Luca!

Jebus. Packaging Qt apps is terrible. And, a Qt Quick app is huge. I mean, my binary is under 200k, but by the time the Qt runtime libs are included the install footprint is going to be 10+MB. Obviously still much smaller than the hundreds of MB of an Electron package. But, this still isn't sitting right with me...I set out to learn how to make compact, portable, applications and this aint it.

Qt Quick is nice to develop for, but it's so unpleasant to package and deploy and quite big.

@glipari ehm is this a reply to something?

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