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You're falling for the "perfect is the enemy of good" fallacy.

I'm just not a fan of half-measures. Especially ones that stick in people's minds as an acceptable way of doing things as opposed to rapid prototyping kind of deal.

QT5.

It is as thought browser/javascript is the only thing out there now. Or at least appears to be implied in the comments.

Just wanted to state that in other worlds, like C++, there exist tools like wxWidgets which provide cross platform GUI.

I know, of course. But at least on macOS, I can usually instantly tell when something is using a cross-platform UI library. Even if controls look native, they're usually laid out wrong and don't follow platform's conventions.

There are examples of the opposite, of course. IntelliJ IDEs, despite using modified Swing GUI, feel native-ish to me because Jetbrains put in enough effort to replicate macOS native behaviors.