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Re:Ask HN: What Toolchains Are People Using for Desktop App ... by kcartlidge on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:41PM (#44851022)
- Some mentions of Lazarus and FreePascal (so basically a cross-platform open source Delphi equivalent). And I'd agree with them.

- For C# I like AOT assemblies using Uno or Avalonia.

- For Go I like TCell (which does cross-platform console mode text GUIs [with cursor positioning, colours, mouse, etc]).

- If you're doing vibe coding I find it tends to work best with Electron.

- The big omission here is anything Python; I don't do desktop apps in Python so can offer nothing. Same for Ruby, though Hotwire Native looks interesting.

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Re:Ask HN: What Toolchains Are People Using for Desktop App ... by fuzztester on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:05PM (#44878186)
>The big omission here is anything Python

wxPython and PyQt are some options. PySide too. There are some other less-known ones too. I've not tried Kivy. There is also tkinter which comes built-in with Python.

IIRC, the Dropbox GUI client app was done with wxPython on both Linux and Windows.

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