I cringe when I have to install a Qt app, because at least half of the time, even as a user, I know I'll be fighting with Qt system dependencies. Even if the ap

I cringe when I have to install a Qt app, because at least half of the time, even as a user, I know I'll be fighting with Qt system dependencies. Even if the app is distributed in binary form. The situation gets worse when you have to actually build the source. It seems like the API is never stable, even with minor versions they seem to like changing methods name and breaking backwards compatibility. When I look at what was changed, it looks like change for change sake and I can't tell a difference in how its better. It happens so often that I'll avoid a Qt app because the dependency management is so bad. Then once you finally get it to work, be prepared to spend time on Stack Overflow researching arcane QT_ environment variables to fix things like display scaling and added additional library paths at runtime. It's been this way as long as I can remember, and the problem has persisted across versions and different OS and systems I've had over the years. I can always get something working, but it just feels like nothing ever just works out of the box. Also QT applications seem like they are more unstable to me, more prone to crash and just not work well. I'd rather have a runtime error in some javascript frontend than the entire app crash, and have to pour through enormous stack traces through crazy overly abstracted code that shows a list or runs some tab component. Then there is the style, at least the one that comes out of the box. Very inconsistent and relying too heavily on platform features that make the app look and behave differently on different OS's. It must be hard for developers to customize because you rarely see a polished Qt app, they all look the same and have the same quirks and lack of padding, spacing and consistent typography. The last thing is kind of personal, but I tire of seeing the word Qt everywhere. We already know we are working with Qt, you don't need to prefix every single class and package with it. I get this may have to do with namespacing, but in practice it just makes source harder to read and debug.