Interesting.. back in the early ‘00, I implemented the BeOS api on top of the win32 api. Naive me thought that would make people adopt programming for BeOS and in turn would make it a popular OS.
jchw · 16m ago
Now this looks interesting. I am not familiar with the BeOS APIs, but the UI design is very pleasing.
One thing I don't see mentioned anywhere including the plans is accessibility though. Not having basic accessibility support would be a serious issue, so I'm hoping it is either already there and just not mentioned or at least planned in some way.
mouse_ · 3m ago
In a very real way, Windows XP was more accessible than anything made since, due to it being more friendly to hacks. There's a reason you see so many disabled people who refuse to abandon their ancient setups.
Smaller, simpler, more hackable software is inherently more accessible.
mouse_ · 7m ago
Cute!
leonheld · 28m ago
Haiku/BeOS to me is simply peak computer design. This is beautiful!
kosolam · 11m ago
What are the practical benefits of this library?
We have gtk,qt,fltk,wx, and a long list of others some cross platform some not..
One thing I don't see mentioned anywhere including the plans is accessibility though. Not having basic accessibility support would be a serious issue, so I'm hoping it is either already there and just not mentioned or at least planned in some way.
Smaller, simpler, more hackable software is inherently more accessible.