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by frogperson 114 days ago
I still cant believe its 2026 and there is no good, cross platform, open source, UI toolkit.
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Give Qt with QML a try! I wrote a blog post about it[1].

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

Too many moving targets to hit them at once. Currently only thing which can be considered universal cross platform is webpage, which is what electron is.
These companies have enough resources and profit from these services to build teams dedicated for each platform
Out of curiosity, what's your gripe with Qt?