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I guess you are a JS developer. Some of us have a C++ background and C++ code base. Qt is for us a more natural choice (and has been for a long time) than elect
by Iv 7y ago
I guess you are a JS developer. Some of us have a C++ background and C++ code base. Qt is for us a more natural choice (and has been for a long time) than electron is. "a unknown markup language and toolchain just to get a window displaying" is basically what JS/CSS is for me (is it still hard to get a text center-aligned vertically and horizontally or have they finally gotten over that?)
Qt does not force you to use that language, the C++ API works fine and in my experience, the documentation has been one of the best I had the pleasure to work with.
"Microsoft and Apple roll out the red carpet for developers to make ui development super easy"
Microsoft I agree. Apple, on the other hard... Last time I checked (admittedly, a few years ago) there was no way to code an app without having a Mac hardware and a developer license. I ended up borrowing a friends' mac to compile... a Qt app. That worked immediately.
- anilgulecha 7y ago> is it still hard to get a text center-aligned vertically and horizontally This has not been true for over 5 years.
- Crinus 7y agoIt had never been true at all if you didn't care about gaining kudos from CSS purists and just used a table :-P.
- Iv 7y agoSince this discussion I have checked to see if one of the projects I want to do, that requires OpenGL rendering inside an UI, would not be doable with electron. Google Qt and OpenGL and you get the documentation of the appropriate widget. Google GL and electron and you get a bunch of github issues and people complaining it does not work well yet. Nah, JS is struggling to get where Qt has been for years. I am happy that it solved its text alignment issue in 2014 though.