# GtkReactive vs Gtk

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtkreactive-vs-gtk/7714>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtkreactive-vs-gtk/7714 "2017-12-12T16:40:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonathanBieler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jonathanBieler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonathanBieler)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtkreactive-vs-gtk/7714/8 "2017-12-13T17:21:06Z")

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The largest I know of is my [editor](https://github.com/jonathanBieler/GtkIDE.jl), I haven’t had too much performance issues (besides precompilation and starting time) but I don’t have much interaction between the widgets, it’s mainly “press a key =\> do something” type of things. That said the windows version doesn’t really work (because of Gtk.jl issues afaik).

I guess being able to statically compile our applications would be ideal, but that will probably require some rewrite of Gtk.jl and a lot of work (see [Compiling and building binaries from your julia code - #47 by sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compiling-and-building-binaries-from-your-julia-code/5687/47)).

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