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Qt exists.

• mc3 7y ago
  I think Electron is popular because you can hire web devs to make a desktop product. With JS you can write code that runs on your server (NodeJS) desktop (Electron), browser and mobile app (Cordova). It's not a great experience but it is good for rapid development, easier hiring of skills (just need some web devs!) and the code reuse might be helpful for bug reduction.
  • buboard 7y ago
    Its also slow and bloated. You get what you pay for
    • pmoleri 7y ago
      Bloated, yes. Slow, no. You start at a not so low binary size and memory footprint, but that's it. VS Code is an awesome IDE built on electron and it's really snappy.
      • weberc2 7y ago
        VS Code has not been snappy for me. Especially with large screen sizes and lots of widegets. For example, if I close the left-hand pane and shrink the window, performance improves considerably.
      • mc3 7y ago
        Not nearly as snappy as notepad++/sublime, which are in turn not as snappy as Vim.
  • ajxs 7y ago
    > you can hire web devs to make a desktop product This is a bug, not a feature.
• skunkpocalypse 7y ago
  For C++ and Python only. And those Python bindings are laboriously backported by hand from the C++ API. QT will never be a language-independent toolkit, and the world will always need one of those.