2. You will need a big amount of hacks to make your project work on different platforms. Especially if you do something fancy.
Not to mention serious licencing issues.
>You will need a big amount of hacks to make your project work on different platforms. Especially if you do something fancy.
Having done Windows-Linux Qt, I haven't noticed needing "hacks" (unless you count the hacks necessary to build anything on Windows at all cuz the OS wasn't meant for programming ;p).
The fanciest thing I've done is theming (light, dark, etc.), which Qt doesn't seem to support natively, and which is difficult to do sanely without some "hacking".
>Not to mention serious licencing issues.
What issues? Is it just that it's LGPL, or what?
Light/dark theming should be easy with stylesheets.
On top of that, priorities are just different now. I spent an afternoon chasing down why QtCore has incomplete or missing methods for handling JSON documents (TLDR: "won't fix"), but I get a constant stream of marketing email promoting their new in-app advertising structure. And now there's a speech recognition engine?
I'm just done with it all. Guess I need to learn React.
Their bad licencing made sense back in the day. But they now face strong competition and instead of moving to a more open licence system, they seem to be doubling down. They don’t seem to understand that not only they aren’t the only framework in town anymore, they are currently worse than much better licenced systems.
As a Linux user, do tell me what the "native" solution is that I should be using! I love performance.
What does it feels like to spit random beliefs out of your hat and state them as truth? Native doesn't even mean anything, there really is something wrong going on on the mental models people have when talking about GUIs. IIRC QT use GDI+ on Windows for drawing 2D GUIs, which is mostly CPU based. And its shows in many tasks, see e.g. the strokePoly40 https://blend2d.com/performance.html Chromium use Skia and gecko use webrender, those are much much much faster on average. In fact the web has more FPS than native libraries in general.