I was looking for something along this line a while ago. Closest I saw was SVG support in emacs, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get it to work, and it real

I was looking for something along this line a while ago. Closest I saw was SVG support in emacs, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get it to work, and it really wouldn't have been adequate anyway. For those questioning the judgement of having a GUI toolkit in emacs, the answer is simply that the role and scope of emacs has long left behind being a mere text editor. For folks who like the "Lisp Machine that is emacs" I'm surprised the idea of having a modern GUI capability is so looked down upon. I think lots of folks would like a portable lisp machine with a "real" GUI. I mean, if it doesn't impact the closed loop coding and editing experience that folks are used to, what's the harm? I had some personal projects that I would have liked to, perhaps, do in Lisp. But a requirement was that it be cross platform. I wanted to share my applications with others, and cross platform is a requirement. And I'm lazy, I do not want to "mess with it", I want it to "just work". I considered Pharo, but (when I looked), their raw drawing model was still very, very primitive. It was nowhere near what the Browser Canvas model or Java2d is like with their transformations and clipping and paths and what not. The Pharo model was little more than global coordinate line drawing. Plus, they keep redoing their widget toolset. GUIs are really not Pharos drive. Just enough to do another browser is their drive. Flutter wasn't ready for the desktop yet, friend of mine is a big fan of Flutter right now. But, boy, are (were) Flutter builds slow. You're supposed to be able to a bunch of hot reloading, but that only goes so far. The Electron style solutions just seemed overwhelming with the scope of browser frameworks (I'm not a front end dev, and I do find the front end world utterly overwhelming). Plus it's huge, the dev turnaround seemed slow when building your project, etc. Serious consideration, people have great success with it, but I chose not to. I went with JavaFX as I'm a Java person already. Release sizes on par with Electron style apps, but my Clean/Build dev turn arounds are < 10s. I've tested it across Mac/Ubuntu/Windows, and it all seems to work. (JavaFX does not support Wayland, so I don't know what the real impact of that is.) I did not consider Clojure, but did look at potentially using ABCL, but I honestly just didn't want to have to redo the bindings for everything from CL to JavaFX (and back). It would have been a hybrid model, and likely "the worst of both worlds". Maybe that's not true, that was just my sense. And there's really no other decent Lispy -> cross platform GUI solution. I'm sure it could be done, but just a lot of work. I like Lisp, but I like getting stuff done more. So, if eMacs had a rendering model and a decent GUI toolset, I could very well given it serious consideration for my dabblings and madness.