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I was hoping to design something where on the left side there would be a tree of all the Bins (folders) and user would be able to click check boxes next to the folders they care about and the UI would instantly update with a list of matching Bins on the right side of the UI. Data would be pulled from cache stored in SQLite DB.

Can you see any issues with this on either Electron or QT? At first glance it feels like both should ok.

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Okay I hope you still readind replies so here is that: wanted to reply directly to topic starter since it's most relevant. Some might be taken my posts here like I hate Qt or something, but I really like Qt.

I don't see any issues with implementing your idea using Qt and it's will absolutely certainly be using less CPU and RAM without any optimizations.

Yet IMHO there is good chance that if you stumble into some Qt / CMake / C++ issue then you gonna be wasting ten times more time on initial implementation. This is C++ for you. And this might kill your project before you even get to first stable version.

Should be possible with Qt widgets or Electron. Qt also has its own Electron-like web-based solution.

Qt widgets would likely be the fastest and lowest footprint. Though I'm not familiar enough to say exactly how you'd go about that.

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