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Or chose a better tool for the job, picking languages based on platforms, not picking an hammer and then trying to find a nail that fits.


GUIs don't exist by themselves, but serve a program. Rust may still be the best language for the non-GUI part of the program.

I've once picked ObjC for a whole program based on its native GUI, and spent way too much time chasing bugs caused by its thread-unsafety (Cocoa bindings are a trap in multi-threaded programs).




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