Favourite toolkit

[nn_step]

for coding applications for an OS

[eshbach]

System.Windows.Form in .NET 2.0/3.0 is certainly the easiest and most full-featured for writing desktop applications.

Win32 is nice as well, I was a fan of MFC before .NET. I appreciate the convenience of .NET though... when high-performance code isn't absolutely neccessary, I'll write in .NET.

For Solaris, the only other operating system I really code for at work, I either use Java (for most things it's fine) or C. I don't usually look forward to writing the C code, but it does always end up working.

[ahmad]

Qt is hax.

[uOpt]

I don't do regular GUI programming and I want a non-invasive toolkit that I can just "use", as opposed to organize my application around it. Gtk+ also seems to work pretty well, so my vote goes there.

I heard a lot of good things about wxWidgets but didn't use it. I wanted to grab the network abstraction layer for a non-GUI project but it's, well, not really a networker's tool.