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Not only a joy, it would be the best way we currently have to make desktop applications. Currently the easiest alternative is JS+Electron, but that's just horrible because of all the waste of resources. Python is hard to package, so something statically compiled would be great.

I would prefer Rust for this (or, well, I would prefer Python with a better packaging story), but Go is much better than the alternatives too.

python can be packaged up. I haven't done it, but there are some popular 100% python apps with a UI that dint require any global python crap.

Like Sublime.

Sublime Text is mostly written in C++, Python is only used for plugin API.

Like Calibre too https://calibre-ebook.com/about

While not very modern, Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/) is a Delphi-compatible Pascal implementation for cross-platform GUI apps. While I've not coded in it I've used a couple of Lazarus apps, and it seems quite mature and works well.

was thinking this also. The language seems very well suited to GUI applications based on its internals and I would love to see what comes of it in this regard. moar bindings pls

author here; Thank you :)