>I know there's a lot of hate in here for Electron, but it truly makes cross-platform desktop app development achievable for small companies and indies.
So does Qt
So does Qt
Learning Qt means figuring out a whole new stack and build chain. Maybe the result would be better, but with only a few hours a week I didn't feel like it would have been worth the time investment.
See for example:
https://nklayman.github.io/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder/g...
I think the reason you consider the web app publishing pipeline the “regular” pipeline is the reason we’re having this discussion =p
Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.
Sure it is.
>Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.
No more garbage-like than you're getting with Electron and just as style-able (with arguable superior layout engines). Qt has a number of style palettes; perhaps you're used to using applications which chose to use non-native/standard palettes.