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GUI engine developers need to trade EVERYTHING for execution time, otherwise JavaScript would simply not be fast enough to handle modern applications.

If your device has enough resources to power V8, modern GUIs are certainly very pleasant and snappier than a more minimal GUI like HN. Otherwise they are horrendous and very laggy.

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I don't know if you got my point. Starting a multi gigabyte machinery for the web just for a chatting app is pure insanity sorry. It will be slow to start, slow to react and a battery hog vs a comparable quality QT app. The worse part is usually people use the web stack for desktop app because they don't want to bother giving a good experience to the people on their own native platform.

I do wish more things were written in Qt, but Qt Widgets is very unpleasant to work in for a modern dynamic app.

QtQuick/QML/JS is very pleasant and I do wish more people would use it, but from I've seen it's 25-50% the resource use of electron, not some multi-order-of-maginute improvement, do I understand why many people still prefer electron for portability in this case.

True, I wrote my own chat app in Qt, and it is substantially faster and more efficient (lower battery usage) than anything made with web technologies.[1]

[1] https://www.get-vox.com/

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