Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

I have a personal project I’ve been working on that is a desktop app with a UI that has some fairly complex data visualizations.

I’ve been using Electron because I know JS well and can leverage D3.

The problem I’m facing is that I sometimes go for months without working on it, and it feels like everyone I start up I’m running into some dumb JS/TS/Electron ecosystem issue that takes me a few hours to debug (if I don’t just give up first.)

What are some good modern tools/frameworks for building native Desktop apps? Bonus points for cross-platform support.

ImGui

https://github.com/epezent/implot

I wouldn't recommend GTK until they figure out their text rendering issues (among other things). I've loved the library in the past, but it's pretty bad from a developer perspective these days.

Godot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24043427

I use Lazarus

But it is not modern. It is like Delphi was 20 years ago