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This. We (at Remotion) are currently evaluating what platform to build for, given our start with macOS native / Cocoa. But for Windows, what is Windows Native?

Seeming like more of a collection of half-baked ideas than robust frameworks that we'd want to bet a bunch of dev time on.

As you both mention, we might end up with a cocoa macOS app and an Electron app for Windows & Linux.

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Please don't make Linux users suffer because of Windows.

I'm not a frequent Linux user so that comment crept in there—we haven't evaluated as deeply. Any suggestions for how to best build Remotion (lightweight video chat + dock for your team) onto Linux?

Are Qt, GTK4 or Compose (Jetbrains) viable options?

I'm not a fan of Qt from my time at Dropbox (we used it for our desktop client preferences for some time), but will need to check out GTK4 and Compose. Thanks!

I used to be a big Qt fan but I have started favoring Gtk. Glade is better than any Qt designer. And being C based you tend to get better Gtk bindings in other languages. Who wants to develop in C++ these days unless they are doing systems programming?

My strategy would be Cocoa for MacOS/iOS and Gtk for Linux/Windows.

I don't really dev with Qt, but I thought a lot of folks were using QML and sometimes QtQuick these days. Seems to make it possible to hide a lot of the C++ :)

Although of course, it does mean you probably have to touch C++ sometimes.

Check compose mpp, uses Kotlin and Skia under the hood. Really good performance overall.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-mpp/

Not native.

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