Oct 10, 2026, 1:59 PMAnother #announcement of new #wxWidgets releases: https://wxwidgets.org/news/2026/10/wxwidgets-3.2.12-and-3.3.4-released/
This one is more important than most because we hope to release 3.4.0 next, so testing 3.3.4 in order to find as many problems as possible before the next stable release and not just after it, as usual, is especially welcome!
Oct 10, 2026, 2:01 PMBTW, 3.3.4 contains a lot of #accessibility improvements which is something I had always considered very important, but never had time to work on before, so it's great to finally make some progress here, even if the PRs adding them were made possible only by the use of LLMs.
@VZ I've personally long got over any feelings of guilt due to using LLM's for accessibility work. The world was not built for people like me, and despite understanding MSAA, UIA and the Cocoa APIs on a decent level at age 20 due to being a blind systems hacker, I don't feel ashamed to admit that I would've done less than half of my accessibility work for this release without Claude. Not because I don't care, but because Claude turns "We called .toNSString() on freed memory" into a 20 minute bug hunt instead of a multi-day headache-inducing slogfest, and actually lets me operate at a level that I'd argue I should've been able to forever ago and that no one else really bothers operating at. If a listbox wasn't rendering visually at all on macOS and Linux, that would've gotten fixed immediately. Meanwhile, blind people did notice the broken listbox on macOS when using wrappers like wxPython, but their solutions were to make wrappers that delegate to the dataview on cewrtain platforms (https://github.com/accessibleapps/smart_list), not to fix it at the root. And my AI coding agent lets me now fix problems like this at the root super efficiently. I review the code it outputs religiously and the results are seemingly positive so far. I'll debate the ethics of AI all day long, but it seems like a net-positive for this particular thing.
@VZ btw I want to mention something here. there's a joke/meme circulating in my community where someone says: "doesn't windows use WX widgets for it's UI?" wx is so good, that some people get actually to think that which is funny and also a showcase of how freaking good it is!