I generally like using Qt apps, be it Linux, Windows or macOS. Development with Qt is also quite nice, with very well documented APIs. The only issue is that so

I generally like using Qt apps, be it Linux, Windows or macOS. Development with Qt is also quite nice, with very well documented APIs. The only issue is that sometimes there is something really weird going on with fonts (on Linux at least). E.g. in Quassel sometimes text looks as if it went through a cheese grater. And even though I have all the necessary fonts, I don't see some Unicode characters properly (emojis mostly). In Gtk apps they are displayed perfectly. I've been told it has something to do with Qt limiting the number of fonts that it goes through, although I'm not really sure. As for Electron, this is such a poor runtime. Chromium's C++ (not V8) garbage collector is so unsophisticated that it sometimes blocks for several seconds on lower-end devices. At $dayjob, I got reports about UI unresponsiveness[1] and after looking at the logs, sure enough, 2.5 pause times several times, and mostly revolving around 15ms, 50ms, 70ms, 110ms etc. - wtf. That's just bad press for garbage collectors. Add to that, that each release consumes more memory than the one before. After that you look at all the different garbage collectors for JVM and wonder who even makes the decision to go for Chromium and not JVM, not to mention the quality of languages that target those two platforms. [1]: Not our app, but for us to debug. :|