I tried to do my part by removing boilerplate using macros [1] [2], but it is still complicated to design GTK apps. Even more now, because Glade has been deprecated for GTK4 and no visual editor is available to replace it for now, making developers manually write XML while exploring the sparse documentation. This is a regression for developers' experience.
I am really trying to like GTK after using Qt a lot in the past, but there is just too much effort. Things should be as simple as VB6/WinForms. With no visual GUI editor, I find myself to just write CLI tools in Rust instead of going the extra mile and creating GUIs.
I tried to do my part by removing boilerplate using macros [1] [2], but it is still complicated to design GTK apps. Even more now, because Glade has been deprecated for GTK4 and no visual editor is available to replace it for now, making developers manually write XML while exploring the sparse documentation. This is a regression for developers' experience.
I am really trying to like GTK after using Qt a lot in the past, but there is just too much effort. Things should be as simple as VB6/WinForms. With no visual GUI editor, I find myself to just write CLI tools in Rust instead of going the extra mile and creating GUIs.
[1] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gladis
[2] https://github.com/MicroJoe/gtk_liststore_item