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I don't think it's anything to do with toolkits, and everything to do with packaging and ABI issues. You can't distribute a commercial, binary app for 'Linux'

by nly 5y ago

I don't think it's anything to do with toolkits, and everything to do with packaging and ABI issues. You can't distribute a commercial, binary app for 'Linux' easily unless you statically link everything (which you cannot do with Qt without breaking the license) and compile on something ancient. Even using something like Qt, writing a C++ GUI app for the 3 major platforms (macOS, Windows and Linux) is about 10x more work than getting something like Electron working and distributed.

throwaway894345 5y ago
> Even using something like Qt, writing a C++ GUI app for the 3 major platforms (macOS, Windows and Linux) is about 10x more work than getting something like Electron working and distributed. In my case, I did most of my development for an embedded target, which meant my org shipped the entire OS and therefore we only had to worry about the packages we were shipping. Packaging wasn't much of a problem in that context, but it was still many times more effort than an Electron app--my issues tended to be related to tooling and language.