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I think I get what you mean. In my experience, declarative frameworks are great for simple UIs but don’t scale all that well with UI complexity. Eventually you

I think I get what you mean. In my experience, declarative frameworks are great for simple UIs but don’t scale all that well with UI complexity. Eventually you find yourself doing somersaults and handstands to achieve what you need with them and find yourself wanting to fall back to a boring old imperative framework. Granted, my experience is with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, not QML but it doesn’t seem like developing complex (especially full fat desktop-style) apps with declarative frameworks is as nice as it could be.

viraptor 3y ago
SwiftUI is still relatively young and... idiosyncratic. I hate how hard or weird it makes some basic things. (empty, transparent element with an action attached just to handle an event of the window appearing?) But there are some really good systems available. .NET WPF is great overall for example. I could of course complain about how things are implemented and how mvvm is not baked in and how converters are too big and many other details. But I never needed to hack around the declarative part - that always just worked.