Qt is an amazing piece of tech that got many things right.
1. Performance that matches native speeds
2. Single codebase for multiple platforms (without relying on web technologies)
3. Not limited with a single language (has bindings to all major languages)
4. The core is written in a performant language (C++)
But recent developments in UI programming is sidelining frameworks like Qt with some really good innovations.
- Like React/React-native ecosystem pioneered the component based declarations of UI elements.
- Flutter pushed it to all platforms with Skia as the rendering engine
- Jetpack Compose is pushing it with a better language (Kotlin)
- State management had matured a lot with redux style immutable stores
The irony is even with all these recent developments there isn't a single UI framework that took the best parts of older frameworks like Qt and combined it with the recent ideas from Flutter and Jetpack-compose!
If it did it all, the multi-platform support is handicapped. Either the native strategy becomes an afterthought or the Web becomes an afterthought, hurting accessibility, etc.
We still have a long way to go in cross-platform UI frameworks :)
1. Performance that matches native speeds
2. Single codebase for multiple platforms (without relying on web technologies)
3. Not limited with a single language (has bindings to all major languages)
4. The core is written in a performant language (C++)
But recent developments in UI programming is sidelining frameworks like Qt with some really good innovations.
- Like React/React-native ecosystem pioneered the component based declarations of UI elements.
- Flutter pushed it to all platforms with Skia as the rendering engine
- Jetpack Compose is pushing it with a better language (Kotlin)
- State management had matured a lot with redux style immutable stores
The irony is even with all these recent developments there isn't a single UI framework that took the best parts of older frameworks like Qt and combined it with the recent ideas from Flutter and Jetpack-compose!
If it did it all, the multi-platform support is handicapped. Either the native strategy becomes an afterthought or the Web becomes an afterthought, hurting accessibility, etc.
We still have a long way to go in cross-platform UI frameworks :)