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Anyone left stranded with Microsoft 's decisions regarding C++ GUIs, only has C++ Builder and Qt, as frameworks that combine C++'s capabilities with high productivity tooling like for Java and .NET.

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And LeanQt of course.

You misspelled Electron.

I can't remember the last time I saw a new Qt app.

The Tesla GUI in the car is made using Qt and it’s arguably one of the best. But I agree almost everyone go with Electron.

Eletron, when one cares more about themselves than their users. (TM)

That should be a shirt

Ditto Mercedes.

Tesla using Qt for GUI while SpaceX uses Electron shows how crazy modern UI development has become.

As much as Tesla's well known for thumbing their nose at safety, Qt has variants designed for safety critical things like instrument clusters. Whoever owns Qt these days even calls out instrument clusters specifically.

Electron has none of that.

Not to mention how slow Electron would run on the embedded CPU on the Tesla dash board.

The Intel atom is slow but the newer cars have an AMD Ryzen and it should run fine.

I sometimes wonder if the fancy SpaceX touchscreens are there just for the press, and when the cameras go off they use the real physical instrumentation backups that wouldn't die altogether with the wrong helmet bump in zero gravity.

All KDE apps!

Linux user I guess.

The Telegram Desktop client is a Qt app as well. (and about ten times snappier than any other messengers desktop client)

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