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Can you share some of this ‘love’ to me? Because my experience with QT so far was : it does ‘who knows what’, ‘who knows when’ and ‘who knows why’ And if you wish it to work the best tactic is “do not change anything, it will surprise you and there will be no way to go back” :)

May be I am missing something important in understanding? I was trying to tweak some projects for my needs. I successfully did it but it was a nightmare.

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If you learn how to separate your logic in C++ and your views (GUI) in QML you can achieve the best of both worlds. C++ is fast and I love programming with it. QML is easy and powerful you can create slick looking apps with it with beautiful (and easy!) animations.

I bought the Udemy course of Bryan[1] and learned QML in one day. The next day I already had a prototype for a Kanban[2] that is based on Markdown.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/qml-for-beginners/

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/notes/kanban.mp4

That second link is the the sort of thing I wish I saw more being pushed as an example of QT. Looks great!

Thanks! I know, it's totally possible to create beautiful apps using Qt. The problems are:

1. Most people in OSS don't care about UX and aesthetics (most of the people using Qt) 2. The Qt Company's examples are absolutely ugly (with the exception of one). If that's what you show developers they would either not believe it's possible to create beautiful apps with it or that it's too hard.

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