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Inspired by: https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1686188323164028928

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A stick figure pondering: "Hm. If only there was a platform for my desktop application"

The stick figure stepping over many native GUIs to pick up Google Chromium.

The stick figure: "Ah! Here we go!"

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[–] SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  1. godot is a pretty small game engine, so bundling it wouldn't be that bad (it's smaller than chromium); but
  2. godot kinda sucks as a UI framework
[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I agree that godot is goated—I use it myself. But for plain UI stuff, I find it annoying to work with.

[–] lennster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Even though godot is a game engine, people have made some pretty cool apps with it's UI framework