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what's the best cross-platform solution of that bunch?

Lazarus is very similar to Delphi and is Open Source (L/GPL)

If you're looking for the '90s GUI experience, you likely cannot find better. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac and possibly the BSDs.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Just imagine a Lazarus but for Python. It would be the worlds most popular application.

Boa-Constructor. We had that years ago but it never got popular for whatever reason, at the time it seemed spectacular. Think it's in the Debian repository.

http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net

Thanks for that, I found some later work on bitbucket. I would love to understand what held this back from success.

I suppose no-one would take it seriously now unless it used Qt.

https://bitbucket.org/cwt/boa-constructor/overview

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