[jw14]

Over the years we've had many cross platform GUI frameworks. Both native (wxWindows, SWT) and non-native (Swing, Qt). Everyone was trying for "better".

There have always been questions of adoption, stability, fidelity of the user experience and others.

Meanwhile web apps have kept chugging along and browsers have gotten better and better.

> What the earth needs is a better cross platform native GUI framework.

I contend that "native" is irrelevant. People are "native" web users. They use web based interfaces daily. A browser based UI is the "cross platform native" (whatever that means) GUI.

It can be fast (if you do the work, which may involve firing up external processes) it can be beautiful it can look native and it can deliver great user experiences.

It's not the GUI framework we wanted, but it's the one we deserve :)