Is there a tutorial of how to make a desktop GUI app using only QML/Quick/whatever, without C++ or Python? I want to build a desktop app and will gladly offload the work logic to a separate app to be invoked in background via CLI.
Rust works fine but with qml technically there is very little programming code except the in app js-logic
I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad idea, Apple enables the same nowadays with Catalyst (iOS APIs on macOS). But it doesn’t seem very popular. Just curious why you want to go this way.
2. I am a solo developer and want one framework to write once, run everywhere (still looking for which will do the best job for me).
So... Qt's C++ framework then?
Late edit: as an afterthought there are other languages that provide similar functionality. Xojo comes to mind as having capability to write once and run everywhere. It doesn't have the performance of C++ though and comes with a bunch of its own baggage.
Although performance is nice to have, it obviously is not the most important thing for me. Low verbosity (as little code necessary to write a functional and reliable UI as possible) and fast learning curve are the most important things.
Qt and Xojo are both real contenders on these points. I would argue that Xojo has a faster learning curve if you already know BASIC but is perhaps much less expressive if you need any sort of complex computer science algorithms or data structures which is where C++ really shines.
Qt's learning curve is "pretty quick" but it of course comes with having to know a decent amount of C++, and possibly javascript, to utilize effectively.
> I just heard you don't really have to use any language other than the Qt's internal ones any more.
Yup absolutely. If it were me and I were building a UI, I would seriously consider Qt's framework. I don't particularly like Qt's framekwork (it still holds a lot of baggage from pre-C++11 days) but I must admit that it's fairly extensive, certainly cross-platform across desktop and mobile operating systems, and has a fairly quick learning curve to use.
Widgets are still supported (because they work, and they are used by lots of faithful Qt customers), but QML is where they've put pretty much all their development focus since the late 2000s.
New projects are typically encouraged to use QML I think
I wasn't wondering where they were putting their development time.