Ask HN: Native alternatives to Electron

5 points by vbsteven ↗ HN
Every time an Electron based desktop app pops up on HN the comments inevitably end up discussing its poor resource usage.

My question is, what are the alternatives for modern native or near native cross platform desktop apps?

The viable solutions I know of are JavaFX and QT but the price tag for a commercial QT license is pretty high ($3000/year). Are there any other solutions worth looking at?

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You can develop commercial/proprietary Qt apps with free LGPL license of Qt. Other cross-platform toolkits: wxWidgets, Gtk+, etc...