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I am looking for a cross-platform GUI library that feels native across Mac/Win/Linux and has well maintained bindings in a language that is not C++ - an impossible task it seems.

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GtkAda is a binding for Ada. Ada is like Pascal but much more powerful. GTK is available for Linux, Windows and OSX. However, you could also use Qt and import from C++ to Ada.

http://www.ada2012.org/

http://www.adacore.com/gtkada/

http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.ada/gtkada-for-macos-x/14082...

https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php

That's a very interesting solution. I've been curious about Ada for a long time, but never found a reason to use it for anything - this might be it!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

A few years ago I did a writeup on the language. http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada

tl;dr: there's a great deal to like about it, but its quirks are very quirky.

Thanks for pointing this out. It is really good and important to know Ada's weak points. OTOH I agree that there is a great deal to like.

Go + Qt and/or QML

Yeah, https://github.com/therecipe/qt seems like the best option right now...

making bindings isnt too hard

Quick and dirty bindings? No. Ones that actually take into account the idioms of the host language and build idiomatic abstractions around the raw bindings? Not necessarily hard, but requires a significant time investment.

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