What parameters to use to compare GUI frameworks / toolkits?
- by gooli
I'm doing some research on the best GUI toolkit to use for future products at the company. We're talking about a fairly large organizations with quite a bit of code and a complete rewrite project in planning. Don't ask.
Anyway, I'm trying to create a list relevant parameters to judge the toolkits. What would you use to drive the comparison?
Here's what I've got so far:
Maturity
Ease of development
Ease of prototyping
Ease of maintenance
Size of hiring pool
Available knowledge at the company
Training costs
Community size
Community level of expertise (how hard to find good answers to complex problems)
Amount of expert-level books available
Ability to interface to other technologies
Deployment considerations
Visual aesthetics
Ability to access OS resources
Multiple monitor support (something that might come in handy in our particular application)