&gt; I suspect it&#x27;s simply a matter of the younger crowd having more exposure to native mobile development, and little or no experience with native desktop development...<p>Precisely this.<p>Mobile devs care about their artisanal&#x2F;bespoke&#x2F;authentic Objective-C or Swift code, while no-one really cares about Qt, GTK or wxWidgets in quite the same way.<p>There&#x27;s social cachet to be gained by coming out in favour of native mobile development, while the same is not true for native desktop development.