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Photon vs wxWidgets: What are the differences?
What is Photon? Framework for Electron apps. The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.
What is wxWidgets? It is a cross platform GUI library. It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.
Photon and wxWidgets belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.
Photon is an open source tool with 9.1K GitHub stars and 527 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Photon's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Photon
Pros of wxWidgets
- Native looking UI5
- Learning Curve4
- Cross platform3
- Permissive license. Commercial with static linkage.2
- Open source2
- Pure C++ code1
- Python1
- Performance1
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Cons of Photon
Cons of wxWidgets
- Uses Qt for GUI (wxQt)1