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If you don't think C or C++ are sane languages you are never going to write any thing sane for Von Neumann computers imo. Much less something cross platform.
Ok, so be it. C and C++ are still insane to work with.
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I used JavaFX a while ago and hated it. It was insanely slow, fonts were awful and the lib of components was non existent. It really felt like something created by someone but never used in the real world. Is it even used anywhere?
Agreed, JavaFX's font rendering on MacOS was like this for years : https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1413266/82507544-6... (Note not only the inconsistency between letters - all the specific colour values used are the wrong ones to get a working subpixel effect in the first place). Possibly still is like that. But that gets around to your question... is anyone still around to notice?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors#Appl...
Now you can build completely native GUIs in the appropriate language for each platform. Start with the platform which will likely have the most users for the application. Bonus if the application is open source, other developers will build all kinds of native GUIs for you. Just look at how many GUIs are out there for things like PostgreSQL, Git, IRC, etc.
I know this doesn't exactly meet your requirements, but I think this is the way to go if starting something in August 2022.
Beware the bias of the loud minority. For every 1 noisy user, there may be 50 quiet users who are fine with the decision to use Electron.
Shipping beats not shipping every time, and if Electron is what you need, then do it. I say this as someone who does not like Electron, but also as someone who knows that writing comments on HN is 100x easier than actually shipping production software.
Personally I like JavaFX. I made something pretty complicated with tkinter and Python. It's not that hard to do but the result looks awful, it doesn't support many features people expect in 2022, and the documentation for using tk in Python is poor. You probably need to refer to the tcl/tk documentation and translate it in your head to apply to Python. As much as people hate Electron, the rendering engine in a web br…
Why? The only way to get a truly native look and the ability to specialise for each OS. Maybe Windows does threading better than Linux and can be optimised in some way. Maybe Linux has some nicer native UI controls that could make that part better on Linux.
Otherwise cross-platform mostly means a UI that is not native looking on any platform. Haven't used QT recently but of all I used, that was the closest to what you are asking for (I was using C++ - sorry, it's not that bad!) but I think there are bindings in other languages, although they might well have some bugs compared to the basic C++ version.
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Ok, so be it. C and C++ are still insane to work with.
It's really not that bad and comments like this just perpetuate the fear to other people who have never touched them.