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My first stop was Node.js, something I was only sort of vaguely familiar with before. It's a JavaScript runtime environment that has a package manager with every kind of library you could possibly need, including a dozen different frameworks to create a UI, like React.js. While it's most often used to write web apps that run in a browser, it can compile to exe. Personally, after setting up and creating a few test apps with Node.js and React and playing around with the package manager npm, I found the whole experience to be exhausting and a little bit overwhelming. This is coming from someone who has no problem jumping into a new programming/language environment with a manual and a pot of coffee.
I looked at a few other things but not well enough to review them, until I stumbled on Dart. Dart is a newer language that's very easy on the eyes, reads like a cleaner version of C, and has incredible development tools. I never actually "learned" Dart, I just jumped in and was writing code in 5 minutes. It's also the language used by the Flutter framework, which is a much nicer UI experience than the Node.js alternatives like React and Express; and Flutter just added support to target native Windows apps!
I looked at a few other things but not well enough to review them, until I stumbled on Dart. Dart is a newer language that's very easy on the eyes, reads like a cleaner version of C, and has incredible development tools. I never actually "learned" Dart, I just jumped in and was writing code in 5 minutes. It's also the language used by the Flutter framework, which is a much nicer UI experience than the Node.js alternatives like React and Express; and Flutter just added support to target native Windows apps!
I highly recommend Visual Studio Code (an open-source all-platform editor, not to be confused with Visual Studio) with the Dart and Flutter extensions - you can just jump in and start writing Dart apps for the command line, then take a look at Flutter to see how the UI side looks. Dart code compiles to reasonably small executable file on every platform, with two limitations off the top of my head: I don't think you can compile for a different platform than the one you're using (there are CI/CD tools that can do this automatically, like GitHub), and I have no idea how Flutter fits into that process yet because desktop app support is relatively new.