The more I use #GNOME on my private computer and need to use macOS Tahoe on my work computer I'm convinced GNOME is the much better UI.

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lazarus@fosstodon.org — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:44:17 GMT

@helge There are Swift GTK bindings. Never used them, don‘t know how good they are. https://rhx.github.io/SwiftGtk/@renef@mastodon.social @iamkonstantin

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lazarus@fosstodon.org — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:42:47 GMT

@helge It‘s from 1998. It‘s a hardcoded GTK2 wrapper, isn‘t it? These days we have GObject Introspection, that‘s the way you write language bindings.
In case of ObjC you could also write an ObjC runtime that maps to the GObject type system, in case anybody dares. @renef @iamkonstantin

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lazarus@fosstodon.org — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:39:38 GMT

@helge Did you really try to use that with GTK4 and libadwaita? @renef @iamkonstantin

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kekunplazas@mamot.fr — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:25:26 GMT

@helge @rotopenguin While that wouldn't be my first choice nowadays, you may be interested by the Vala language: https://vala.dev/. That's a GObject-native statically complied programing language with a C#-like syntax that uses C as an intermediate representation.

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hbons@mastodon.social — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:02:38 GMT

@jaredwhite @renef go for it! if you need an app icon let me know.

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helge@mastodon.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:14:34 GMT

@rotopenguin I don’t know anything about how this is being done in modern gtk.
But all those system seem to end up replicating an ObjC in userspace, including Qt.
I don’t know but I assume a proper AppKit replica would still be the best option for open desktops. The architecture is just unmatched.

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rotopenguin@mastodon.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:34:14 GMT

@helge imagine a world where you could do gobject stuff in a smalltalk-ish syntax, instead of a pile of C boilerplate.

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fersman@mastodonczech.cz — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:55:42 GMT

@renef I had exact same feeling

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renef@mastodon.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:24:03 GMT

@helge @iamkonstantin The "little" is doing quite a lot of lifting there

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mora@mastodon.uno — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:42:26 GMT

@renef you like to win easily

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iamkonstantin@mstdn.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:08:36 GMT

@helge @renef Ha! That's so cool
I've been Pythoning it as of late

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helge@mastodon.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:57:15 GMT

@renef @iamkonstantin It may be a „little“ outdated, but you could use Objective-C : https://github.com/helje5/GTKKit

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:46:48 GMT

@renef Same! I actually want to write a GNOME app. I can't say the same for the Mac. And I'd been an Apple fanboy for the longest time, until pretty recently.