Beginner questions for creating a cross-platform GUI for a miner

[vtjl]

Hi, I'm a developer who's new into the cryptocurrency development space who wants to learn the basics. As a starting project, I thought that developing a cross-platform GUI for a miner would be a good start.

The first choice to make is to choose a programming language suitable for the project. As I want to create a cross-platform GUI the obvious choice at least as a beginner seems to be use Java. However as I've looked for similar projects for inspiration I've found that most GUI's for miners have been create using the .Net framework.

This makes me wounder if there is there any particular reason why Java isn't suitable to use to create a GUI for a miner? If it is not a suitable language to use, please provide a suggestion of a programming language that would be suitable for the task.

If Java however is a suitable programming language I would very much appreciate if anyone could provide examples of similar open source projects in Java that I could use as inspiration.

Also I would also appreciate any other suggestions, documentations or tips I could use!

Thanks you very much in advance!

[achow101]

I would recommend that you use Qt. It is very widely used and Bitcoin itself uses Qt for the gui. You can find out more about Qt at www.qt.io

[vtjl]

Nice suggestion! Thank you very much, I will look into it.

[melisande]

I think the right section for this Development & Technical Discussion because it is a technical questions.