Ok, there’s no such thing as native Windows apps for Linux, but there are cross platform GUI frameworks like Avalonia and Uno that can produce apps with a polished identical experience across all platforms, no electron needed
Good lord, I’ve never seen anyone say this in public. I used Qt Creator for a couple of years and I found the combination of C++ for under the hood and Javascript for the UI to be a fantastic way of ensuring a nearly nonexistent base of developers who could competently do both. Maybe they grow on trees in Finland, I dunno. And maybe you’re talking about some other “Qt”, I also dunno.
I’ve done C# and Java extensively as well and I would never choose Qt over them. I might choose Qt over Objective-C, however.
QML is such an awesome UI language, the only thing (that I know of) that comes close is Jetpack Compose.
The flavour of JavaScript QML uses is very different from regular JavaScript, it’s literally a glue language and any significant non-UI logic should be done in C++.
And Qt C++ is very different to most other C++ framework (or how people usually write pure C++), it feels much more Java-inspired.
Anyway, it really is a great UI toolkit if you want something powerful, cross-platform and efficient.
Ok, there’s no such thing as native Windows apps for Linux, but there are cross platform GUI frameworks like Avalonia and Uno that can produce apps with a polished identical experience across all platforms, no electron needed
Qt is my favourite, though it’s not .NET.
Good lord, I’ve never seen anyone say this in public. I used Qt Creator for a couple of years and I found the combination of C++ for under the hood and Javascript for the UI to be a fantastic way of ensuring a nearly nonexistent base of developers who could competently do both. Maybe they grow on trees in Finland, I dunno. And maybe you’re talking about some other “Qt”, I also dunno.
I’ve done C# and Java extensively as well and I would never choose Qt over them. I might choose Qt over Objective-C, however.
QML is such an awesome UI language, the only thing (that I know of) that comes close is Jetpack Compose.
The flavour of JavaScript QML uses is very different from regular JavaScript, it’s literally a glue language and any significant non-UI logic should be done in C++.
And Qt C++ is very different to most other C++ framework (or how people usually write pure C++), it feels much more Java-inspired.
Anyway, it really is a great UI toolkit if you want something powerful, cross-platform and efficient.