The safest, simplest option would be C, CLion and GTK. Qt is pretty heavy in it's own ways (though not as much as electron). I might try out relm + rust, to se

The safest, simplest option would be C, CLion and GTK. Qt is pretty heavy in it's own ways (though not as much as electron). I might try out relm + rust, to see what the state of the art is: http://relm.ml/relm-intro http://relm.ml/relm-intro I've used https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/ https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/ in the past, and it was easy. Looks like there is a notification area example: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/widgets/notification-icon/ http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/widgets/notifi... Looks like it's possible in go: https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk And python: https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It doesn't look very supported, but even node has GTK bindings: https://github.com/WebReflection/node-gtk https://github.com/WebReflection/node-gtk Honestly, thanks for bringing this up. Looking at these is interesting an nostalgic. It seems like everyone nowadays just does webapps, and its interesting to see "the state of the desktop in 2018".