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GUI development is broken [for ocaml]

A rather disingenuous omission by the author.

Why should horrible low-level or platform-specific languages be our only options for building GUIs?

What do you call Python, JavaScript, Java, or C#?

Python isn't first-class in any GUI framework IIRC (although Qt for Python may change this). JavaScript and C#, with regards to GUI, are single-platform languages (I've never seen a UI built with Node and no browser, and I don't see a good way to build a Linux GUI in C# that is actively maintained). That leaves Java, which I will concede, even though Java isn't first-class on any platform except Android.

Mono? Xamarin?

They're not. C++ isn't a low level language by any stretch of the imagination.

Javascript isn't either.

Both of them have a glut of good cross-platform gui options.

With mono, C# and winforms work pretty well cross-platform too.

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