node-gtk

I've tried. Multiple times: https://github.com/gnome/gnode https://github.com/WebReflection/node-gtk https://github.com/endlessm/eos-knowledge-content-node https://github.com/Place1/node-gir The C++ V8 / Node API is actually more unstable than the equivalent SpiderMonkey one (there is supposed to be NaN, Node's wrapper abstraction library, but complex language bindings like I did requires a lot more than what's in NaN), and overall I encountered a lot of bugs in the ecosystem. Making libuv work with an external message loop like glib requires some complex plumbing. The thread story is a lot worse: glib wants to call your callback function from another thread, and V8 will crash if you try to do that. There's a lot of edge cases when you're implementing language bindings, and I kept hitting into non-rounded-off edges, bad documentation, and

The safest, simplest option would be C, CLion and GTK. Qt is pretty heavy in it's own ways (though not as much as electron). I might try out relm + rust, to see what the state of the art is: http://relm.ml/relm-intro I've used https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/ in the past, and it was easy. Looks like there is a notification area example: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/widgets/notifi... Looks like it's possible in go: https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk And python: https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It doesn't look very supported, but even node has GTK bindings: https://github.com/WebReflection/node-gtk Honestly, thanks for bringing this up. Looking at these is interesting an nostalgic. It seems like everyone nowadays just does webapps, and its interesting to see "the state of the desktop in 20