Another factor is the lack of a good cross-platform GUI toolkit (by which I mean one that (a) doesn't feel out-of-place and jarring on any platform and (b) doesn't turn a 50K app into a 1GB download.)
replyBetween that and the level of complexity of modern GUI toolkits - and the size of their dependency trees - distribution of a GUI app is a much bigger headache than distributing a terminal app.
there is TCL-TK. :)
replySuper easy to use, fast, almost zero ram usage and battle tested for 2 decades.
"Equally jarring and out-of-place on all platforms" isn't quite what I asked for, but I guess it's the next best thing! ;)
replyThat hasn't been true for a while, it's easily the best of the bunch at this point. It's also always been trivial to change, which can't be said of the others.
replyI'd say it's easily the least bad of the bunch, anyway, if you're really committed to cross-platform.
replyMake the core feature of your app a library, then write different interfaces according to the targeted platforms.
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