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Sounds like developing in QT is awful. They have had to do so much work porting it to new versions of QT.

• hanikesn 2y ago
  Imagine porting a web app to new frameworks over 25 years or keeping up with Macs ui Framework over that time frame ...
• RobotToaster 2y ago
  GUI development is awful in general tbh, outside of basic stuff anyway.
• tux3 2y ago
  That's just any big framework. Porting a large codebase between major releases of GTK (or Javascript frameworks) isn't much better.
  • badsectoracula 2y ago
    Depends on the framework. Qt5 was released in 2012. All of my LCL/Lazarus projects from that time open in modern straight-out-of-git Lazarus just fine. I'm pretty sure 99.9% of my LCL/Lazarus projects from 2005 (when Qt4 was released) also work out of the box, with the exception of those that tried to use strings as byte buffers (fixing this is a quick search and replace) since the datatype changed (this was a compiler/language change though, not a framework one). Retaining backwards compatibility is very important for LCL/Lazarus. That said Qt has been better than other frameworks when it comes to backwards compatibility, after all you can use the Qt5 docs for Qt6 code and vice versa and things work 95% of the time. Actually i was working on some Krita plugin recently and i only had the Qt6 docs around but i never encountered any issue with what i was using. AFAICT Krita's issue is mainly on the lower end of things and how they integrate with their custom OpenGL code.
    • hallarempt 2y ago
      Yeah. We need to do lots of low-level stuff, and things related to GPU have changed a lot from Qt to Qt.
  • raverbashing 2y ago
    Honestly the major open source native Widgets frameworks suck (for C/C++) MFC is slightly better, and MFC sucks (at least on MSVC 6.0 era) WxWidgets was one of the best/easiest OSS ones. The best library hands down was the one used by Borland C++ Builder (Windows only), VCL. QT felt like going around in circles and a bit like those "useless superpower" charts, GTK like nobody had invented C++ yet.
    • AlienRobot 2y ago
      I really think it's holding desktop Linux back. I was making windows apps when I was kid using Visual Studio. There is no way I'd be able to with any of Linux frameworks. The closest thing would probably be to use Java.
      • asddubs 2y ago
        qtcreator actually supports a workflow quite similar to Visual Basic 6 in terms of making guis/adding functionality to buttons, etc
        • AlienRobot 2y ago
          *right clicks* *context menu covers entire screen* You can't drag and drop widgets in the hierarchy view, which sucks when a container has a width/height of zero because it has no widgets inside of them yet. It's not terrible, but it could be better. I can't be the only one feels this is weird, right? Like, you have a team who can create an entire IDE, even rendering widgets and dragging them around, but somehow things like organizing a context menu in submenus and making the designer intuitive is too hard. And this is a consistent theme in every one of these apps. The things that should be the hardest to program are programmed, the easiest to implement quality-of-life improvements are lacking. GPU-accelerated video transitions in a timeline based video editor? Easy peasy. A status bar that actually displays statuses? Absolutely impossible to implement.
        • raverbashing 2y ago
          Theoretically. In practice it was much more clunkier.