I respectfully disagree that GTK is more friendly than AppKit. It may be truly strictly from a cross platform perspective, but AppKit is still unbeaten in varie

I respectfully disagree that GTK is more friendly than AppKit. It may be truly strictly from a cross platform perspective, but AppKit is still unbeaten in variety and capability of UI widgets, especially if front end web is the point of comparison. Just to get an interactive table view that’s comparable in features to NSTableView on the web you’re looking at duct taping together several libraries or reinventing the wheel yet again and writing the whole widget yourself. GTK and Qt better than the web in this aspect but still not as good (custom widgets are still frequently necessary with both toolkits). AppKit only comes up short in that it’s not built to have its appearance changed dramatically and of course that it’s tied to macOS. If you need cross platform that’s a legitimate limitation, but as noted before brand driven UI design is far from a need.