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Re: Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?

#11

Post by peefy » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

Qt? MAUI?

Re: Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?

#12

Post by ogoffart » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 3:05 PM UTC

I'm one of the developers of Slint[0], a framework the should be ticking all the boxes for stable, lightweight, and native-style UIs supporting accessibility

[0] https://slint.dev

Re: Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?

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Post by dafelst » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

ogoffart wrote: post #12

I'm one of the developers of Slint[0], a framework the should be ticking all the boxes for stable, lightweight, and native-style UIs supporting accessibility [0] https://slint.dev

I am very impressed with Slint, especially once you jump through the hoops to enable the skia rendering backend.

Re: Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?

#14

Post by melwinalm2 » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

I am using wails in one of my personal project currently. It's basically a combination of any frontend stack with go. File size is pretty minimal.

Re: Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?

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Post by mkayokay » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:09 AM UTC

So far, I have tried Qt directly with C++ and python bindings (pySide6, pyQt), where C++ is definitely the lighter option.

If you consider python bindings, you could also look into JavaFX. It has the advantage of native images or the option of a fat jar containing all platform dependant FX modules. But the resulting files won't be small.