What is the best technology to create a desktop application [closed]

Question

I am not a developer hence not up to date with the latest developments into the tech world. I am thinking of creating a desktop application for my own use and trying learn the best available technology doing the same if I could. I am planning to develop it for windows and I have hands on experience on C++ and visual studio. Will look forward to an expert advice.

Answer 1

Unless you define what exactly your priorities are, there is no real answer to this question (as it happens with most "What is the best ...?" questions):

• What environment/OS do you care for? Windows? Linux? Mac OS X?
• How important is ease of development?
• How important is the memory footprint?
• How important is "freedom" (whatever your definition of that is)?
• How much money do you have available for the task?
• How much time do you have?
• How important is stability of your application?
• How important is the proofability of your application?
• What development language, if any, do you know?

Those are just a few things you need to clarify before a good answer can be given.

Answer 2

Using flex to create an AIR app would let you create a cross-platform desktop app.

Answer 3

I have to throw my support behind Java Swing apps here. As a desktop Java developer for many years, I've developed many solid applications that do indeed run on multiple platforms.

You can definitely get very in-the-weeds with Swing (CellRenderers, etc), but basic Swing by itself will probably satisfy 80% of the use cases.