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Too bad Sun screwed up with Java on the client. We could've had this 20 years ago.

Or, speaking of Sun, something akin to NeWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

NeWS looks interesting, though unfortunately a little before my time. My first experience with SunOS was SunOS 4.x on a Sun-3 (3/60, I think?) in the early 90's, and by that time everything was X-based, I believe.

Delphi have it close. Unfortunally the tool cost a lot:

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/firemonkey

Lazarus is free and open-source.

Yes, but is not that polished, and the look/feel is akward across OS

wish is downloadable for all these platforms.

The reason why it was not "pushed" is SUN edited it. It was internally competing with java, like oak that seems interesting too.

http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html