I started a few months ago a personal home finance manager which includes other nice things - in Flutter (!!!). Then I decided to switch to Python and Qt becaus

I started a few months ago a personal home finance manager which includes other nice things - in Flutter (!!!). Then I decided to switch to Python and Qt because Flutter for desktop is still not a thing, and finally to c++ and qt6, because on my Mac a simple app took a lot of time to boot (> 5 seconds) and an idle window, not hello world, was using 70MB of ram. Blame it on pyinstaller or whatever other reason, well, it's then that I decided that for my own hobby project without (paid) deadlines I don't have to follow trends like Electron or easier alternatives like PySide just to "deliver something". I want to provide a low-memory low-cpu usage alternative and possibly something I can also install on mobile as well. I always wanted to learn C++ and never got the chance to use it for work, so I started reading the most significant books and resources suggested by [0], including learning how modern projects do things - on this, Jason Turner's template comes handy. In the beginning it was tough, and at times it still is, however I am getting more and more familiar with the way things are done. At first I chose Meson for "simplicity" but it took me a while to realise that Cmake is actually pretty easy as well, so I switched to Cmake and started using Conan. My project setup is slowly converging to [1] - I couldn't just use it without having any knowledge about c++. I am happy that someone packaged a lot of good and modern practices in such a repo. (I know they are good because the approach is quite common with other languages/technologies too). There is way more to learn than with other languages, but it's interesting. Plus, i watched one or two videos from the creator of the language, and I like his philosophy of "freedom", which I believe is one of the main issues nowadays with c++, as most developers just want a prepackaged set of tools and APIs to develop and deliver fast, without thinking too much - c++ clearly doesn't get along with this type of developer. The project consists of: - C++20 with Clang - clang-format - clang-tidy - project_options with dev mode and other sanitizers on - Cmake/ninja - Conan - lots of nice things provided by the - catch2 - qt6 - TOML for internal configuration - Sqlite3 for DB - github/actions for CI/CD I still haven't use Valgrind, still an amateur afterall:) [0]: https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp [1]: https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/gui_starter_template https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/gui_starter_template