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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by beamatronic on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:54PM (#30793281)
There was a great cross-platform environment called Visix Galaxy in the 1990's. You could compile your C++ source into native apps that ran on Windows NT as well as Solaris and HP-UX. It had a fantastic GUI builder which is similar to what is available today.
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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by CRConrad on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:51AM (#30811387)
It's possibly still around: http://www.ambiencia.com/overviewgalaxytd.php . Expensive as fuck, though; if I understood the pricing page correctly, it's $1.5K for a single-developer no-support license of the cheapest version. (Dunno what the differences between versions are.)

Free Pascal / Lazarus is a FOSS cross-platform language and GUI IDE. I'd recommend trying that in stead.

Found via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19754073 -- Thanks, @DonHopkins!

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