As I said I am not qualified to judge how hard this is, but: I don't really like working in an IDE, or need to. I am happy to design GUI components in a markup

As I said I am not qualified to judge how hard this is, but: I don't really like working in an IDE, or need to. I am happy to design GUI components in a markup language, for the kind of use cases I am talking about. However would it not be possible to hide the complexities of managing a GUI in the framework/bindings so that the Python user just has to deal with "Someone clicked OK>Run this function" in as easy a way as VB did? I mean I don't know much about how to send a http request in C++, but I can do it in 'requests' without much problem! Thanks for the advice on Lazarus. Not FOSS and not desktop, but I have been looking at Anvil recently, which makes it really easy to code web app front ends, allowing me to concentrate on backend stuff. http://www.anvil.works http://www.anvil.works