Language Dilemma

Posted by Spiritual_Let_4348@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 10 comments

I am trying to build a password manager as my projects for portfolio and I don't know which language I should use.

Currently I know: C++, C, Java and some JS,HTML,CSS

I am willing to learn a new language as long at it is used broadly in industry or it will be useful in future.

I want to build a cool GUI and planning to connect my passwords storage to a SQL database. I tried to make it Java before but GUI looks very old style.

Any advice will be much appreciated, thanks very much !

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peterlinddk@reddit

I tried to make it Java before but GUI looks very old style.

You know that you can change the style, right? If you use JavaFX you can even use CSS styling just as you would with HTML.

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You may want to take a look at raylib, a very cool library that also has some UI functions. Raylib is available for a lot of languages, so you can choose one you like and then just use raylib with it.

In case you are not familiar with Immediate Mode UI, I can recommend this introduction explaining the concepts and why it's better than retained mode UI.

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ffrkAnonymous@reddit

all of them

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BeauloTSM@reddit

You can make it in vanilla HTML/CSS and JavaScript

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Spiritual_Let_4348@reddit (OP)

The thing is I am trying to make a desktop application and JS would require electron for that which is resource heavy.

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alienith@reddit

Are you saying that based on experience, or what you’ve heard? Electron isn’t that bad and javascript is unavoidable. Also, non-web GUI frameworks are notoriously cumbersome to work with. There’s a reason that electron is everywhere and it’s not because people are lazy.

For a portfolio project I’d do it with electron, and if you hate it you can always redo it in another language/framework.

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BeauloTSM@reddit

I don't think a password manager would end up being too much, but there are other options:

Dart + Flutter
C# + WPF
C# + .NET MAUI
C# + WinForms
C# + WinUI

I write a lot of C#

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ScholarNo5983@reddit

Since you know C++ then wxWidgets would be one option for the GUI.