I have been held back for years because of the sad state of desktop UI frameworks. I have recently embarked up creating my own, if only for my own purposes. It'

I have been held back for years because of the sad state of desktop UI frameworks. I have recently embarked up creating my own, if only for my own purposes. It's a nightmare. One of the primary issues is that there is no foundational cross-platform support. For creating windows, GLFW is the best bet. I should give kudos here. GLFW works and is well-documented, a rarity indeed. The forum is also pleasant. For graphics, Skia is probably the best solution, but it has problems. For example, it is 2D only, has support on a Google Group with not much traffic, and is complicated to build. The binding for it on .NET is currently not actively maintained, despite being effectively owned by Microsoft. You also give up performance. For example, Direct2D is much faster than Skia on Windows, and Direct2D can seamlessly interact with Direct3D in the same window. But SharpDX (the .NET bindings) is no longer maintained and DirectX is of course Windows only. Then you have macOS which is completely antagonistic. It is locked to an extremely old OpenGL version, and Apple may remove it at any indeterminate time. So you either build against OpenGL or start jumping through hoops in GLFW and Skia to use Vulkan and Molten to talk to Metal on macOS. Also, macOS is the only OS that forces the window management on the main thread. All window management on all OSs is on a single thread, but on Windows, for example, that thread can be any thread. Then there's Linux and the umpteen million distros and the two window managers in X11 and Wayland. There is no cross-platform accessibility library that I know of. On top of all this, all pf these solutions have limited to no support. Most projects are ran by just a couple of people, if that. This is not a complaint against them in any way, as it is simply an observation of the reality in that support is highly, highly limited. There's also the issue that many of the issues encountered are complex and often reach across several stacks. For example, is it a bug in Skia, GLFW, the bindings to these, the OS, the graphics drivers, or from the interaction of these. There are also very few resources and references for stuff like this.