> Electron and PHPDesktop might be considered the future of desktop development as they allow rapid development of desktop like software.
And unfortunately also Flutter.
I am developing my own cross-platform, desktop-only GUI system. It is rough going for me, but the ideas in it are really not that hard. What surprises me is that no company has stepped up to fill the gap left by GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, and the OS-specific frameworks other than Flutter and Electron. Flutter and Electron can't even manage multiple windows. It's a shame. Because for a team of competent folks, I really don't see any massive barrier to creating a cross-platform, desktop-only GUI framework. And for some reason, academia doesn't seem to be interested at all in GUIs and other such things, despite there being a lot of interesting and difficult problems.
And unfortunately also Flutter.
I am developing my own cross-platform, desktop-only GUI system. It is rough going for me, but the ideas in it are really not that hard. What surprises me is that no company has stepped up to fill the gap left by GTK, Qt, wxWidgets, and the OS-specific frameworks other than Flutter and Electron. Flutter and Electron can't even manage multiple windows. It's a shame. Because for a team of competent folks, I really don't see any massive barrier to creating a cross-platform, desktop-only GUI framework. And for some reason, academia doesn't seem to be interested at all in GUIs and other such things, despite there being a lot of interesting and difficult problems.