gui fucking toolkits fuck

Is there a GUI toolkit that doesn't suck balls? Mobile app developers get a load of APIs for creating nice, native looking stuff with smooth animations and transitions, but on the desktop we get crap that struggles to make anything that looks polished. The cross platform ones tend to look out of place on all platforms, and for creating something with smooth animations and transitions, you're probably better off using fucking node-webkit, I mean really? OS X developers seem to have it the nicest with Cocoa, that actually seems nice but I don't run OS X. Can someone give me some example desktop applications that have the level of polish that seems to come standard with mobile apps? I want to be inspired. Shit on mobile stuff all you like, but you gotta admit, they look better. Am I just going to have to either put up with garbage or make GUIs with openGL or something?

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with smooth animations and transitions

How is that a good thing? That looks like shit and it's the reason I have to enable Javashit to see a page that's only text and images.

but on the desktop we get crap that struggles to make anything that looks polished

You're a fucking retard if you care so much about looks. Want a standard looking GUI that is uniform across platforms and doesn't look like Java's AWT/Swing? Use wxwidgets or Qt.

But that's not the problem here. wxwidgets is absolutely fucking messy and Qt is bloated as fuck. You're thinking of the wrong problems here. Now go and make some epic transitions in Javashit.