What a lot of people don't seem to realize about Qt Quick (as apposed to using C++/Qt Widgets), is that it's like a game engine. People seem to think its akin

What a lot of people don't seem to realize about Qt Quick (as apposed to using C++/Qt Widgets), is that it's like a game engine. People seem to think its akin to HTML and JS, i.e. 'interpreted' scripting language, but QML is actually more like a game engine language, it loads the assets into high performance GPU and has much better performance characteristics then anything else including the C++ widgets in many cases.