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You've completely ignored QML / Qt Quick here. That's the actual best option.

Though Qt Widgets in C++ isn't too bad if you use the designer instead of insisting on doing everything in code.

QML is in the category of "learning a new language", although last I tried it it was very much a work in progress. Can't speak to how good it is today.

Last time I played around with QML, it was basically Javascript.

QML is a declarative language; it has curly braces like JS, but that's about it. It also allows you to extend it with (some old, possibly noncompliant version of) JS, but the declarative markup is a distinct language.

That's like saying every YAML or JSON dialect is a new language. Sure, but not a full-fledged "programming language". QML is quite nice to work with, and well suited to the problem at hand.

Granted, it's not a general purpose programming language, but it has a comparable learning curve. Certainy many times steeper than YAML or JSON or other markup languages.

I heard that qml/qt quick had worse performance.

Quite the opposite, since it's GPU accelerated.

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