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Use Qt or Electron and move on with it. With PWAs being supported in the app store and now with Chromium Edge, might as well just build something that will work on all platforms and mobile too. While I admit that there are too few options for lightweight fast Linux UIs, especially with Vulkan acceleration, Qt performs incredibly well and Chromium and Node are only going to get faster.

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> Electron

Oh God please no. I don't need or want every application wrapped in a browser engine.

Sorry, but it already is. No-one write layout engines or canvas rasterizers any more. They just use chromium. Spotify, Teams, Slack... I expect even Word + Excel to eventually transition.

Sadly, this video is on the point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

> > Electron

> Oh God please no. I don't need or want every application wrapped in a browser engine.

Why not ? Dont't you like those funny little creatures called worms ?

Remember Visual Basic ?

I'm going with Lazarus. Why limit my options to terrible runtime vs terrible build time and corporate licensing?

It's crazy how popular Electron is these days. I want to say that it's become the de facto solution for creating hybrid native apps on Windows but maybe that's selection bias due to the apps that I use (dev, gaming)?

I would say the main reason for the popularity is because it allows web devs to create apps for desktop with minimal effort for all available platforms.

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