alt Hacker NewsThere are definitely languages that work well with UIs. I’m not sure how you can make that clear cut a statement?
C++ and Python map extremely well to Qt which is one of the predominant UI frameworks. ObjC maps really well to AppKit/UIKit. Anything small talk derived has been a pretty strong fit for UI work
Just because new paradigms are made, doesn’t mean the old ones are inherently bad either.
> C++ and Python map extremely well to Qt which is one of the predominant UI frameworks
Qt used to be predominent, but it really cannot be said in 2026 given that there's probably two orders of magnitude between the number of React Apps and the number of Qt ones being made in this decade…
> Just because new paradigms are made, doesn’t mean the old ones are inherently bad either
Yet barely anyone uses the old ones anymore. Surely it must not be only because people like new and shiny things (React being more than a decade old at this point makes it far from “new and shiny” anyway).
> ObjC maps really well to AppKit/UIKit.
This example is particularly interesting given that Apple moved away from their old UI tech on favor of SwiftUI, which isn't OO-based.