Comment by tabtab

Why the hell is there not a stateful GUI markup standard? Mice and desktops did not go away with the advent of mobile. They are still the bread and butter of business, for example.

Thus, rather than reinvent the GUI adapter wheel for each and every programming language, let's form a dynamic GUI markup standard based on existing open-source kits to avoid starting from scratch (Typically Tk, Qt, or WinForms. WinForm's base is OSS, believe it or not.)

Then languages can read and write markup (XML or JSON text) to have GUI's instead of glue on some screwy binary addon.