Hiya! I definitely agree on your points. But can you expand on a couple of them, specifically
...Reliability and predictability of desktop platforms.
...Higher flexibility in terms of UI/UX.
Oh, IDK if it's just familiarity and lack of knowledge, but I definitely had an easier time downloading Bootstrap writing HTML and CSS in comparison with Qt (with Python bindings) or that GUI creation library in Java.
With that said, C++ and Qt sounds interesting! Any particular resource you can recommend to get started?
Reliability and predictability of desktop platforms.
If you're targeting Windows 10, there is exactly one API (that does not change much) waiting for you. Targeting "web browsers" will hurt you each time a new version is released.
Higher flexibility in terms of UI/UX.
A web browser is always running in a specialized window frame with an address bar, captured hotkeys et cetera, and HTML does not give you a full flexibility to work around that. Desktop GUIs do.
I strongly dislike Python, but Qt is rather nice. Hint: Their wiki!
Thanks a bunch! Though after an hour or so of reading up, it looks like licensing could be an issue if I ever pursue Qt. The fee is quite heavy for my liking :/
Update: after a month of tinkering around, I found out that Java's GUI offering isn't actually that bad. Swing and JavaFX with their respective scene builders is quite nice to work with after some familiarization. Hopefully I can try it out in a real project and see how it holds up.
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Depends on what you're after.
Hiya! I definitely agree on your points. But can you expand on a couple of them, specifically
Oh, IDK if it's just familiarity and lack of knowledge, but I definitely had an easier time
downloading Bootstrapwriting HTML and CSS in comparison with Qt (with Python bindings) or that GUI creation library in Java.With that said, C++ and Qt sounds interesting! Any particular resource you can recommend to get started?
If you're targeting Windows 10, there is exactly one API (that does not change much) waiting for you. Targeting "web browsers" will hurt you each time a new version is released.
A web browser is always running in a specialized window frame with an address bar, captured hotkeys et cetera, and HTML does not give you a full flexibility to work around that. Desktop GUIs do.
I strongly dislike Python, but Qt is rather nice. Hint: Their wiki!
Thanks a bunch! Though after an hour or so of reading up, it looks like licensing could be an issue if I ever pursue Qt. The fee is quite heavy for my liking :/
Qt is dual-licensed. I personally don't use it because I would be required to bundle a ton of DLLs because of the license.
Update: after a month of tinkering around, I found out that Java's GUI offering isn't actually that bad. Swing and JavaFX with their respective scene builders is quite nice to work with after some familiarization. Hopefully I can try it out in a real project and see how it holds up.