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Even if that was the tradeoff, your average C/C++ program isn't notably fast or lean.

The C programs I use daily are generally very fast, very lean and very stable: Programs such as linux, terminals, shells, vim, etc.

Most programmers don’t have 30 years to perfect their code

It had no crash during 30 years, not after 30 years.

I did, in Linux. It was pretty common too. It got fix. But, every now and then, I still get an occasional panic.

I also recall having my shell crashing (zsh or bash, I don't remember).

I certainly also remember the kernel crashing, but this was in the 90s. Later perhaps once or twice on faulty hardware. Shell, I don't think I have seen this ever.

In my case, the crashes were from last year to the start of this one. Some were related to AMDGPU, others to my WiFi card driver, so they're pretty recent.

I don't quite remember the details of the shell crash, I only remember it being on a tool that've never seem crash due to a fault signal. It was somewhat amusing.

I’ll take a Qt application over the Electron garbage that we see all the time nowadays.

It could be worse but that's not much of an argument for C in particular. There's a lot of ways to do UI that don't involve web engines.

10-100x develop & maintain cost.

good. browser uis always end up sucking more

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