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points by Aurornis 10 hours ago | 0 comments

> it's super easy (I did myself alone many times) to have a single codebase in Qt

I’ve worked in Qt apps on and off through my career.

I do not want Qt apps any more than I want Electron apps.

The solution is native apps using native platform tools, or one of the mature cross-platform toolkits.

[–] ptx 9 hours ago

Which cross-platform toolkits are more mature than Qt?

[–] Aurornis 8 hours ago

Mature was probably not the best word. The modern desktop UI toolkits produce a better UX to me.

Qt feels too locked in to old decisions that were the right choice at the time, but desktops and mobile have changed so much that it always feels like a clash of old and new.

[–] dagmx 5 hours ago

You can make Qt look however you want. The point is that it will give you native UI by default (for the most part and excluding QML)

That native UI will be faster than Electron and most other retained UI toolkits and will be just as capable of creating whatever your subjective view of “modern UI” is.