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Over 10 years ago, it inspired me to play with strange attractors, which eventually ended with me writing https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit.
It was fun and I learned a lot, but it's definitely a deep rabbit hole. I've moved on since then.
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I liked that QML allowed me to iterate quickly on the UI. It was really quick to just compose a bunch of components together and have something working. I also enjoyed the integration with the C++ side. Overall I found QML pretty solid. If I'd build a desktop app again, I'd definitely consider it.
This way you don't even have to type "print" ;)
Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ
It's an editor and renderer for Fractal Flames[1] written in C++17 with a UI in Qt/QML. Other software that renders Fractal Flames is e.g. Electric Sheep[2] or Apophysis[3].
It's a project that I've been working on and off for 10 years and it's still not ready… Reimplementing it several times certainly didn't help, but I learned a lot in the process! It's grown from a simple for loop to basically a language interpreter.
Sorry for the lack of README or license, but this is still half-baked. I want to release and open-source it one day though.
If you want to develop native-looking or information-dense UIs, Qt Widgets is the way to go. If you want to create a more Electron-like UI or develop something for mobile devices, I'd go with Qt Quick. It's also possible to combine both by embedding a QQuickWidget[0] inside a Qt Widgets application.
If you want to get an idea about what both solutions provide, take a look at the examples for Qt Quick[1] and Qt Widgets[2]. Especially Qt Quick Controls[3] are useful to see what UI controls are available in Qt Quick.
I'm working on a desktop app in Qt Quick using QML and C++. Happy to elaborate if there's interest.
[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qquickwidget.html [1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-codesamples.html [2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-examples.html [3] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-widgets.html
They work with Closure-annotated JS (with JSDoc) though; not sure if it fits your use case.
Funny, the sound became all 8-bit like, so it fitted the game quite nicely. :)
It's working only on Safari. On every other browser it says "available shortly".