wxWidgets.
Also - while a lot more low-level - Skia. Sublime Text/Merge and Aseprite are using it.
Also - while a lot more low-level - Skia. Sublime Text/Merge and Aseprite are using it.
But show an app made with it to anybody below 30 and they will call you an ancient fossil.
If something doesn't have transition and gesture nowaday, you better market it to accountants because the general public won't want it.
Everything I do on a computer, apart from the odd movie I watch, is centered around information in text form, yet literally every program except decent text environments try their best to ruin working with text. The only place where I think a non-text-based ui actually adds something is in calendar applications, yet most of the suck as well.
So I sit here alone with the marvel that is 1980s technology, thinking most things regarded as "modern" in computing are a farce.
The only new general purpose tool I can stand is VSCode, where my o my critique is that it isn't emacs (and that multiple cursors are a decent but not a great replacement for macros)