Most people use JavaScript for this nowadays, but most commentary also hates on it.

I'll be real with you. There's a reason JavaScript keeps being chosen despite the hate. It's so much easier and the dev experience is much more polished for creating desktop apps.

The reason it's hated on is that it is running a browser in the background, which people view as too bloated for a desktop app. Moreover, JS tends not to play well with system-wide themeing like GTK or QT.

But in the end, as a developer, you'll be dealing with a lot of messiness going with anything else. If you're up for a challenge, do try other things. But if you just want something that works and looks nice, do Js