I spent some time recently working on a C++ application for Windows using Qt for the UI and general application framework. I was surprised at how easy it is to

I spent some time recently working on a C++ application for Windows using Qt for the UI and general application framework. I was surprised at how easy it is to achieve useful things with C++ and Qt in this day and age. When I used it back in the early 2000s it was a lot more painful but both C++ and Qt have come a looking way. Honestly, to paraphrase Hayao Miyazaki...the web was a mistake. It's almost a classic example of worse is better.