Languages/frameworks for desktop development: recommendations?

Question

I've been doing some research for an internal enterprise application project and I'm considering the risks of adopting a non-web-based approach.What do you think would be good choices of languages/frameworks to develop a "traditional" GUI desktop application? An "old-school" program containing a top-level menu and multiple non-modal screens, containing widgets like buttons, text fields and data grids? Primarily Windows based, but preferably multi-platform?So far, I'm considering c#/mono/GtkSharp (not sure which fork), but I'd like to get more ideas.It's been 8 years since my last desktop application project. It was c#/.net 3.5/windows forms.

java-man · Accepted Answer

If Windows is your primary target, you probably want something sourced by Microsoft.
I would, however, suggest either Java Swing or Java FX (depending on how fancy your application is going to be and/or whether it will have modern multimedia.
In my experience, one can develop and ship high quality enterprise grade desktop applications - not only ship, but also maintain them for a period of over two decades.

pknopf · Answer

This plug-in allows you use to all of Qt/QML with .NET Core.https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnetI'm the author.

alaenix · Answer

You should consider Qt to develop a crossplateform desktop application. Scaling from windows to linux and / or macOS will be easier.