[analog31]

I still use tkinter for apps that I make for my own use. Those are often for lab automation, where a primitive GUI lets me avoid needing 3 hands while running an experiment, and the support for live graphs is extremely useful.

For stuff that I'm likely to share with others, I've been moving over to Flet, because it lets me build things like webapps and stand-alone Windows apps. Both of those things can eliminate the hassles of installing Python apps as experienced by non-programmers.

I hate writing GUI code, and in both cases have written crude wrappers that let me throw together a functional dialog with tolerable defaults for everything. This approach works for "programmers who shouldn't trust themselves to write GUI's," similar to the old Visual Basic.

[pyeri]

I think it's possible to use tkinter to develop even modern apps which don't look primitive, there are many open source projects which have done that including the IDLE editor itself, a part of core python project. The only issue is that it sometimes becomes excruciatingly difficult or painful to even perform some very little non-trivial things (like customizing a data-grid with a different style or having multiple tabbed pages) which are quite a simple task in other toolkits as they're already available in the form of a widget or component.

If ever I decide to leave tkinter, I think a viable alternative I will try is free-pascal[1]. It's a more comprehensive and well-thought toolkit for creating GUIs, more importantly it is also open source and cross-platform. It's the FOSS version of Delphi IDE.

[1]: https://www.freepascal.org/

[7thaccount]

I think you mean freepascal + Lazarus IDE/RAD right? I think the Lazarus tool makes GUIs somewhat easy to build.