igoryonya has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

1) Is Prima GUI toolkit made specifically for Perl?
https://metacpan.org/pod/Prima

2) I am trying to figure out, why it was created, if there already was TCL/Tk, Gtk, Qt and other cross language and cross platform toolkits in perl? What's the advantage of using Prima over using other known toolkits? I didn't find any section i.e. "Why Prima" on their site and their repo page. I mean, well, it will be harder, if you use a perl only Tk to port your code to other language, i.e. C++, for example, if you decide to do this some day.

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Re: Prima GUI TK
by vr (Curate) on Apr 02, 2019 at 22:23 UTC

    It's FAQ.

    Why bother with the Yet Another thing, while there is Perl-Tk and plenty of others?

    Prima was started on OS/2, where Tk didn't really run. We have had two options - either port Tk, or write something on our own, probably better than the existing tools. We believe that we've succeeded.

    ...

    But I want to use Prima in another language.

    Unless your language has runtime binding with perl, you cannot.

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