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Assuming you require portability, the other options are generally all Chrome-based, so if you like you application to not look like shit, I mean, look native...

There's only really wxWidgets in this space, which is order of magnitude smaller.

I guess on Windows there's .NET if you don't care for other platforms as much. Do people still use other toolkits for writing native C++ apps with GUIs? MFC? Native win32 code?




MFC here! When you use it as a thin wrapper around win32 it's not bad. Actually I quite like it, but that's probably at least partly because I've been using it for so long and I know the warts.

I'm convinced that the time I spend on working around its age and oldschool architecture is less than what I would have spend had I switched/"upgraded" toolkits every 3-5 years as seems to be the common practise. Same goes for using C++, btw.


I don't think native toolkits (well, major ones that gain adoption) are coming out much in the C++ space.

I really only know the ones I mentioned!


Oh in the Windos sphere there was Windows Forms, and XAML, and some others thatvI forgot; and html/css based ones (there were some 15+ years ago!); and some other 'universal' ones like wxWidgets but not open source existed years ago. New ones coming out not so much, no.


I loved WTL when I was building native desktop and windows ce apps.




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