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AFAIK, QML is now their full strategy for desktop and mobile. QtWidgets is still supported but is considered somewhat legacy I believe. New projects are typically encouraged to use QML I think.

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Can you provide a source for this?

Not sure there is anything official, but I just uncovered this sentiment in my research after scouring tons of chat forums, etc. while researching GUI toolkits. There seems to be an understanding that QtWidgets is in "maintenance mode" and I'm told hasn't seen any new features in a while. I've also noticed many existing projects discussing migrating to QML (many don't, however, due to the amount of work).

Did you even read the article? They literally just announced new features for Widgets, in the section titled "Useful new features in Qt Widgets".

Pretty much all the material they've pushed for, uhm, almost 15 years...?

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.

I apologize for the confusion. I was addressing the remark,

New projects are typically encouraged to use QML I think

I wasn't wondering where they were putting their development time.

I think the point is "by whom" ? Does Qt say that somewhere? I haven't seen it. They certainly push QML, but they certainly are still activatly maintaining and improving their "old fashioned" widgets as well.

You are wrong about development focus. qtbase/qtwidgets are still very much being developed.

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