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Funnily enough, Microsoft does use Qt for parts of the OneDrive UI: https://forum.qt.io/topic/87898/microsoft-onedrive-sync-uses.... What that says about the state of UI framework fragmentation on Windows is up to interpretation.

A few years back my company put out reqs for Qt devs because we were pushing hard to do some POCs with Qt frameworks. We had a hard time finding those people. I don’t know if it was location or compensation or what.

Unless you need to make a really complicated UI, do you really need Qt devs?

I did a custom widget for editing petri-nets in Qt (no QML), you just need competent devs, whether you have Qt, GTK, or winforms experience doesn't matter.

Onedrive app use Qt

https://forum.qt.io/topic/87898/microsoft-onedrive-sync-uses...

Qt is about as ideal as you can get for cross platform apps. Unfortunately the licensing is an impediment for a lot of usecases.

So, Microsoft should buy Qt then.

Please, no! They would fuck it up somehow, and then abandon it after a few years. Qt has been very stable and dependable for.. ages. MS has created and forgot then forgot too many frameworks during the same time.

Or something like it, maybe something already running on .net ...

Couldn’t they just buy a commercial license?

Yeah, and support it on .net.