Hi,
A quick search only showed a Tk/Gtk discussion from 2001, so I hope I didn't miss something and this is a FAQ. Also, I'm hoping that we can discuss things without having a religious war about which is 'best'.

That said, I'm interested in finding out more about the various options for GUI coding, particularly - but not exclusively - from perl.

The main options I know of are:

• Gtk+ - originally written for the GIMP, used by the GNOME people and some other apps
• QT - written by Trolltech, used by the KDE people and some other apps
• Tk - from Tcl and ported to perl early on
• WxWindows - seems good but I know little of it (the DrScheme IDE is written in it and seems decent)

All of these are cross-platform (at least Linux and Windows and I would guess Mac and 'general unix/X windows as well').

I've used Gtk+ from perl and C++ on Linux with good results and the same scripts runs on Windows (once Gtk is installed), which is nice.

If anyone has experience of more than one of these toolkits and can provide some thoughts on what they see as the most significant strengths and weaknesses of them I'd be grateful.

And I'd hesitate from using this thread to ask the popularity of the different toolkits, but perhaps that would make a good poll?

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