We really are in a dark ages for GUI. I remember back in 2003-2007 every hobbyist programmer I knew was whipping up random UIs for their projects on windows. VB

We really are in a dark ages for GUI. I remember back in 2003-2007 every hobbyist programmer I knew was whipping up random UIs for their projects on windows. VB6, winforms, VCL, w/e. They were all ugly as hell but buttons were on the screens and they had data grids, menus, copy/paste and all kinds of minor UI niceties provided by the OS. It’s too bad the web came and ate desktop UI’s lunch. Now you’re hard pressed to find a good UI toolkit that’s not in pseudo maintenance mode or with some misguided focus on being compatible with mobile and desktop. Dreaming for a day that desktop and data rich applications become first class citizens of gui toolkits again. Even Microsoft, historically a leader in this area, is letting us down.