Since we are speaking about desktop apps here, Rust and Go still have to offer s...

billfruit · on March 31, 2020

I thought Rust desktop UI framework/libraries etc are still very much a work in progress.

pjmlp · on March 31, 2020

Exactly, which is why "Rust and Go here a big game changers in this way" doesn't apply in this context.

mister_hn · on March 31, 2020

give them some time. And there's a Go API bridge for Qt

pjmlp · on March 31, 2020

So the proposition to have a better UI done in Go to beat Java is to use C++.

Well, I can also call C++ from Java.

In fact, once upon a time Qt had official Java bindings.

billfruit · on March 31, 2020

I agree with you, having a poorly documented qt binding which may break on any update is not the ideal way for a modern language to have GUI functionality. Java is good in the sense that it has JavaFX, a modern and rather full featured GUI framework available for it.

Rust, Go, etc is very far from being recommended for production desktop apps with GUIs.