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> With that out of the way, I've been able to find

Don't forget the quite popular https://github.com/andlabs/ui, albeit missing several needed widgets (but work is active there and the base C lib at https://github.com/andlabs/libui). Granted uses Cgo but that should not be a deal breaker for interfacing w/ the native OS libs.

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he mentions that in the previous paragraph:

> First, people have naturally written bindings for Qt, GTK+, ui, ...

Ah, I must've missed it initially. Regardless, seems with enough constraints you can justify NIH. Granted the project has merit on its own but not sure why they are so afraid of Cgo when doing native OS interaction.

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