Qt 6.3

Qt is the reason I started doing desktop cross platform application development several years ago.<p>Not doing anything new in recent years but Qt is definitely a joy to work with.<p>From MVC on data management in the widgets, networking, UI handling and tons of customization.<p>The Qt Creator IDE was the fastest IDE I&#x27;ve worked with and very helpful with Qt Designer integrated.<p>Dealing with system icons in Linux or i18n, tooling, compilation and building and so many other really complex stuff is pretty damn easy with Qt.<p>Although I&#x27;ve used Qt&#x2F;C++ and never the Python binding.<p>Thanks for all the hard work and amazing people behind it.

Honestly I am confused by the reactions here -- everyone wants FREE and GREAT and also calls the company management bad names? Some say that danger is not in the path forward, but instead the arrows shot in the back from behind (!) I see that here.. People that have only written mobile, ever, complaining that mobile is not what they expected; people want cross-platform, pixel perfect AND free-no-money and somehow this company employees people ? and etcetera .. suffocating, petty really..

Many complaints are around about how QT isn’t FOSS, licensing is costly, etc. is everyone happy with its performance as a product and framework, though?<p>We purchased a small business license for QT 5 and I’ve never hated a framework more. It was clunky, resource consuming, surprisingly challenging to build in the way we needed, difficult to work with, etc. No engineer wanted to touch the gui codebase until we moved off of it.<p>Most of the use cases where I see people sing it’s praises are the python framework rather than the C++ one, but are we really the only people who had this negative of an experience?

Remember kids, every week Qt changes their licensing model, every time less in favor of open source and more in favor of a second Yacht for the shareholders. I hate to recommend electron, but with the current closed direction they are going I to, better to stay away from Qt. The KDE foundation agreement is the only reason they still release Qt as open source, sadly. Qt for MCUs is completely closed for example.

It’s easy to argue that all cross platform C++ GUI libraries suck, but Qt definitely sucks the least.<p>Yes, sometimes it can be awkward to use, and yes, there are longstanding bugs in Qt itself that remain unfixed. In my opinion, it is still the best C++ GUI library out there. For basic to intermediate GUI apps, it just works, and for advanced use cases, with some effort you can make it do whatever you need.<p>I write Qt software now and I’d be happy to keep doing so.

I am just starting my journey with PyQt6 coming from React&#x2F;Redux madness. I have a slew of questions if you don&#x27;t mind me asking to more experienced PyQT developers on HN:<p>How does the development experience compare to React&#x2F;Redux? Is there more or less or about same amount of work involved? Learning curve?<p>What is the general timeline of QT -&gt; PyQT downstream of features like? ex) quick compiler in QT 6.3<p>Have you built a major application with PyQT? What about QML?<p>How do you deal with application state like Redux in PyQT?<p>Are there noticeable performance gains and efficient resource uses vs Electron?<p>What advice do you have for someone like me venturing into PyQT? I&#x27;ve used Python in backend only so far.<p>Have you shipped with the fman build tool from mherrmann? How has the process been like?<p>Is there a browser or &quot;WebView&quot; component in PyQT6?<p>Much thanks!

Am I crazy to think Gtk4 is now a viable cross-platform alternative to Qt?<p>The Gtk devs have at least given the impression that they want to support other platforms (for example, this talk: youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FB2Y2Wk6FKE or this post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.gnome.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;is-gtk-4-cross-platform&#x2F;6144&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.gnome.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;is-gtk-4-cross-platform&#x2F;6144&#x2F;2</a>). And getting it up and running on Windows with MSYS was pretty easy. It also uses GPU-accelerated rendering if available.

I think I use two Qt apps regularly and both are related to my 3d printer. The slicer and CAD software.<p>The slicer is Cura and it works great and feels good to use. It&#x27;s a little slow to load, but once it&#x27;s loaded it&#x27;s a joy to use.<p>The CAD software is Fusion 360. Functionally, it does lots of great stuff, but it too is slow to load and, unlike Cura, it feels terrible to use. Of all the software I use, Fusion 360 is the worst. How has Autodesk managed to write a Qt app that feels this bad?

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Is GNOME&#x2F;Wayland compatibility any better? Qt5 applications running in Wayland mode (as opposed to xcb fallback) has issues with window decorator, resulting in windows with missing shadows and other minor differences, as compared to GTK applications.

What is Qt Language Server? Can I use it to have qml autocompletion in my emacs lsp-mode?

Great UI framework, one of The best. And cross platform<p>Some people are wary of the license, but if your project is fully open source you&#x27;ll have no problem<p>There is still some confusion how best open source developers make a living, some are successful, and some get frustrated. Farming users data(Chrome), donations, dual license, paid addons...<p>Congrats to Qt for doing their best in delivering a sustained high quality open source product

Just submit one related CL Repl with qt support<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31006097" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31006097</a><p>Qt is great for its cross platform support. This is a demo of this capability, not exactly pure qt. Qml. Ecl etc.

What about wxwidgets can its be competitor?

Qt is too much expensive and closed-source.