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The problem with Qt and Electron is that there is no GUI editor worth its salt right now. C#+WPF/UWP had Expression Blend since the mid 2000s and it's only bee
by Hamcha 4y ago
The problem with Qt and Electron is that there is no GUI editor worth its salt right now.
C#+WPF/UWP had Expression Blend since the mid 2000s and it's only been getting worse ever since (and MS said they have no interest in bringing MAUI support to Blend which is probably their biggest foot-gun yet).
Godot has the same sweet features that Blend had but in a modern platform and with cross-platform export, yes it has many many rough edges, but it's been getting visibly better year after year and it shows no sign of stopping.
Anyone who thinks building UIs in Electron today is peak developer UX should just check out what it was like to build on WPF in 2009. They had all the shiny of today plus sane ways to do things eg. keyframe animations with custom easing etc without having to resort to insane workaround like importing them from After Effect with custom libraries.
And yes I know about Qt Design Studio, but my experience with it was AWFUL, from being an absolute minefield in the installation experience due to how Qt tries to upsell you on their commercial offering, to having a UI flow that looks like Blend if you took out most of its features out, to having to deal with QML (which honestly feels like a downgrade coming from XAML) and then you have to tie everything with C++?
It wasn't appealing back then and honestly it still feels like an alpha today.