Open Source Frameworks

wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

PHP5 RAD and object oriented PHP framework for building event-driven stateful web applications. Based on Zend Framework, features tableless HTML, multiple databases, accesskey support, auto data type recognition, transparent AJAX, UTF-8, i18n/l10n.

php2desktop gives developers the ability to create content rich native Windows GUI applications using web technologies they're familiar with. Zero C language knowledge is necessary, simply copy your web files into the www directory and run by opening the .exe file. In a way, php2desktop is a PHP to exe compiler without the headache of running commands. php2desktop is an out-of-the-box solution that comes pre-built with PHP 8 and a Chromium 114 embedded browser; combine with the power of JavaScript, SQLite, HTML5 & CSS3 and you'll be making native desktop applications as easy as building a web application. Connect to APIs for interactive applications. Use your favourite framework such as Bootstrap or Laravel and change nothing about your workflow ... Your imagination's your only limit.

Almond Java Application Framework is an easy to use Swing based framework for Java applications. Almond is very much inspired by the K Desktop Environment.