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> The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic.

Qt has nothing to do with laziness. It's simply a well thought-out GUI toolkit which looks good and doesn't require tons of boilerplate code to get a hello world app to work.

Nowadays, if other GUI toolkits aren't as user-friendly as Qt, someone has dropped the ball.

There's nothing lazy about C++ plus Qt. Perhaps you meant C plus GTK+?

Coming from a web-dev background, it feels like the "really lazy desktop app" solution of the day is Node-Webkit/Electron. Everything else requires multi-platform testing.

VB.NET is still a thing isn't it?

Yeah but why lock in with Microsoft when you can have a cross platform app at the same abstraction and difficulty level?

depends on whether the additional platforms are trivially ignorable or not.