I mean, both wxWidgets and Qt are fine, no? GTK 2 and 3 as well (4+ is... meh). There are plenty applications using one of these (often via python bindings).

I think it is more of a staffing problem. Plenty of people know web development, so you want to use those people for desktop as well. Having desktop be JS (electron) helps a lot with that.

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dpe82 8 hours ago | parent [-]

A year ago I would have agreed with you, but now anyone can build a perfectly reasonable native app.

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maccard 7 hours ago | parent [-]

What is native on Linux?

	▲	Gigachad 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What is native on Windows too. These days the term native app is so confused it's hard to come up with a definition that doesn't include electron.