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Sure I can use Qt. And deal with C++ and the MOC. Well, by C++ I mean whatever dialect of it Qt chose to support to be backwards compatible with apps from 1995,

Sure I can use Qt. And deal with C++ and the MOC. Well, by C++ I mean whatever dialect of it Qt chose to support to be backwards compatible with apps from 1995, certainly not C++14 or even C++11 last time I looked and oh yeah - have to use their smart pointers and string/container classes, and learn yet another build system, Qmake was it? And use their “interface builder” and cheap looking Visual Studio knock-off? Orrrrrrrr - JavaScript/Typescript with the amazing Chrome debugger and get my work done in half the time? You’re really really not selling Qt at all, least of all to people who might have NodeJS (lots of those) experience and want to get something done quickly. Yes I’m also aware of Qt’s 200 language bindings and funnily enough, a lot of shitty, slow, crash Qt apps on my Ubuntu desktop are Python with the PyQT bindings. Because even those guys want to get their job done quick. So, basically - Electron seems like a really nice default choice.

jacobush 9y ago
I hate Javascript and web tech and he didn't sell Qt to me either.
lmm 9y ago
> Yes I’m also aware of Qt’s 200 language bindings and funnily enough, a lot of shitty, slow, crash Qt apps on my Ubuntu desktop are Python with the PyQT bindings. So much like Electron then? Use Qt, use Python, and get on with your life. Or use Electron if you prefer, that's fine too. But don't make out like it's the only reasonable option and everything else is too confusing. If you ask 10 developers the right way to do a simple GUI application on Linux, 9 of them will tell you: do it with Qt and Python.
tjoff 9y ago
Moc integrates beautifully with cmake and "all" other build tools. There is no need for the interface builder (though I hear people seem to like it, barely tried it myself). No need to use their smart pointers either, I certainly never have. Never saw any reason to since C++11. No issue at all mixing with C++11+.

jacobush 9y ago

I hate Javascript and web tech and he didn't sell Qt to me either.

lmm 9y ago

> Yes I’m also aware of Qt’s 200 language bindings and funnily enough, a lot of shitty, slow, crash Qt apps on my Ubuntu desktop are Python with the PyQT bindings. So much like Electron then? Use Qt, use Python, and get on with your life. Or use Electron if you prefer, that's fine too. But don't make out like it's the only reasonable option and everything else is too confusing. If you ask 10 developers the right way to do a simple GUI application on Linux, 9 of them will tell you: do it with Qt and Python.

tjoff 9y ago

Moc integrates beautifully with cmake and "all" other build tools. There is no need for the interface builder (though I hear people seem to like it, barely tried it myself). No need to use their smart pointers either, I certainly never have. Never saw any reason to since C++11. No issue at all mixing with C++11+.