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I don't have enough time to make extensive reply at this moment, but still wish to clarify a point that I trying to make here. Also I do like Qt and Qt Creator
by SXX 5y ago
I don't have enough time to make extensive reply at this moment, but still wish to clarify a point that I trying to make here. Also I do like Qt and Qt Creator is my favorite IDE. And I wish there were less of electon apps that eating GBs of my RAM for no reason, but I also understand that our world is not perfect.
So here is the problem: open source project usually mean that it's gonna be project with just single maintainer for quite some time unless it's get like really popular. So you gonna work on C++ codebase doing everything alone with limited resources.
Qt have a lot of features, but it's still not comparable to what web stack has to offer. And if you take single external non-Qt library it's will make builds, deploy and testing so much more harder. And testing or debugging desktop software alone is huge pain in ass when it's cross platform. Running 3 different OS in VMs at least, etc.
Is Qt bad or lack something compared to Electron? No, not at all. But for 95% of open source projects C++ simply wont work. Messing with CMake, packaging and platform-specific mess most likely just gonna sink the project long before single developer manage to get it to stable, usable and user-friendly state.