[socialdemocrat]

One unusual alternative you may not have thought about is using Godot Game Engine. Before dismissing it, consider this: Godot engine is shockingly small for what it does. The download is about 30-40 MB. The GUI designer tool is second to none, and you can make highly interactive advanced GUIs using a language that looks very much like Python called GDScript. It is very quick to learn.

It does make GUI which are native to the platform but you get a small native binary which renders OpenGL.

Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...

[d--b]

I really wanted to try this out, but the learning curve for godot was a little steep, cause there is all the game related stuff I don’t really care about. Any tutorial to create a simple app with a few controls?

[withinboredom]

Wouldn’t that seriously hurt laptop battery life to use a discrete gpu to render the UI? Or is there someway to tell the OS that a non-discrete gpu is fine?

[capableweb]

No, GPUs are more power efficient than CPUs to render graphics, so it'll save battery.

[withinboredom]

So, my laptop is dumb for turning off the discrete GPU when I unplug it?

[Chai-T-Rex]

They didn't say discrete GPU, they said GPUs, which includes integrated GPUs.

[withinboredom]

A game engine will tell the OS to start up the discrete GPU if it is available. This is why I asked the original question. Is there some way to turn that off?

[OvermindDL1]

When initializing a GPU context you can specify whether you want the most efficient device, the fastest device, etc, for a GUI app then you would want to pick the most efficient, which is a single flag to pass in, or supply options and let the user pick which one they want.

[ghishadow]

How is accessibility? best thing about Electron is we get accessibility of Browser