Tox

Tox, the distributed instant messaging program, just got a new GUI client that is written in PURE C WITHOUT ANY DIRTY TOOLKITS. Calls Xlib and the win32 api directly.

Pretty interesting.

https://github.com/notsecure/uTox

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The most popular language for writing GUIs is still C++, which has no standard toolkit

soon

Let us take this opportunity to point and laugh at the standards committee. No one will use this because Qt already exists (as no one uses threads.h because pthreads already exists).

Actually the only popular language that has a de jure standard UI toolkit is Java

How about javashit with DOM/Html?

Didn't consider it, actually. ECMAScript could have been regarded as separate from HTML but these days I doubt that's true in practice.

and of the few that do, many don't use the standard toolkit

I am not a java user but why is this happening?

Because Swing is a hefty pile of shit and its widgets are non-native. Thus anyone who doesn't want to spend a ton of effort to make their application not look like some abortion from the mid 90s uses something else.