So I haven't done any GUI programming since about 1994, with Motif. My wife wants to make a calendar program, and I decided that I'd like to make a simple strategy/board game.

So I surfed around last night, and decided that WxPerl (a wrapper for wxWidgets) is the way to go. Almost with with perl-gtk, but the build/install didn't work out of the box, and the more I looked at it, the more dead/clunky it looked. Plus it looks like getting OSX/Gtk app to run out of same code will be more easily doable with WxPerl. Not 100% against Tk, but it seems so perl-specific, less general purpose, less cross-platform.

Anybody here use WxPerl? Like it? Hate it? is it alive and kicking?

Curious as to what people here use (if you do any GUI's)

In reply to Perl with a GUI by chance

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