I think you'd just end up with WxWidgets. Because it can do all of that. Most of the jank of the modern platform doesn't come from JavaScript - it comes frame

I think you'd just end up with WxWidgets. Because it can do all of that. Most of the jank of the modern platform doesn't come from JavaScript - it comes frame dependency hell, framework layered over framework, and over abstraction. It is a _cultural_ problem, rather than a technical one.