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0 pointsmehrdadn7y ago0 comments

My main problem with Qt is just that it doesn't feel native, it's as simple as that. This trumps all other problems like the fact that it's a bazillion exabytes and painful to set up etc.

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flukus7y ago

It certainly feels more native than web/electron, swing, XUL, GTK and just about every other cross platform technology. It's about as good as you'll get without a native client for each platform, which will always be the best option.

The only other options is the hybrid approach which uses native widgets like wxWidgets, but this means you're limited by the lowest common denominator.

roryisok7y ago

I used to care about the native feel, but now as long as something has a good UI I don't really care that much. Case in point, visual studio code. The file menu is native and that's about it. The rest is html / JavaScript and it's a great interface. I don't care that the buttons don't match whatever OS theme I'm using. The web never has.

Can_Not7y ago

> Case in point, visual studio code.

I think most people consider visual studio to be an exception, not the norm. Whether or not visual studio's performance success represents what the typical developer should be expected to get when writing idiomatic JavaScript in Electron has probably not been fairly evaluated in the face of popular performance slugs like slack.

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flukus7y ago

> The web never has.

One of the best things to happen lately is reader view which does make a good chunk of the web match my theme. There's always been plugins, custom css, etc to work around this failing of the web.

cm21877y ago

I don’t know if it’s a good thing that every website must look like a bootstrap website and every iOS app must have the same Color and menus, etc.

The only issue I have with non homogeneous UI is that it is often an opportunity for not so gifted developers to become creative in term of basic UX and we often end up with no obvious way to go back, non discoverable features and other UX fails.

nurettin7y ago

Delphi is almost as "native" as they get on windows and you still need to do a lot of extra work just to draw a checkbox on a grid.

Use of native controls and their benefits is greatly exaggerated and it all comes down to some murky-feely subjective opinion.

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flukus7y ago

The only other options is the hybrid approach which uses native widgets like wxWidgets, but this means you're limited by the lowest common denominator.

roryisok7y ago

Can_Not7y ago

> Case in point, visual studio code.

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flukus7y ago

> The web never has.

One of the best things to happen lately is reader view which does make a good chunk of the web match my theme. There's always been plugins, custom css, etc to work around this failing of the web.

cm21877y ago

I don’t know if it’s a good thing that every website must look like a bootstrap website and every iOS app must have the same Color and menus, etc.

nurettin7y ago

Delphi is almost as "native" as they get on windows and you still need to do a lot of extra work just to draw a checkbox on a grid.

Use of native controls and their benefits is greatly exaggerated and it all comes down to some murky-feely subjective opinion.

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