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by api 3016 days ago
That's QML, which isn't that different from a browser rendering engine. I'm talking about an actual native UI implemented in native code, not a weird quasi-browser. Of course Qt itself also has quasi-browser features like its style sheet widget styling stuff. If we're going there, why not just use HTML5/JS which has a million billion times more support?

Also C++ is not really the best option. I code systems software in C++ but for UI dev it's not quite productive enough. I've worked with large Qt code bases before and no thanks. I suppose if they've modernized it and incorporated C++11 features it might be more bearable, but in the past it was a pretty awful mess of raw pointers and ownership semantics bugs and very very long compile times.
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seba_dos1 3016 days ago
Aren't good old QtWidgets supported just fine on Android and iOS, just like they were on Maemo and even Symbian?
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api 3016 days ago
Even if this were true it would look and feel horrible like old Windows Mobile with its tiny start menu and desktop apps you had to peck at with a stylus.
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seba_dos1 3016 days ago
As a heavy user of QtWidgets (and GTK+, FWIW) apps on Maemo even today, I can say that's entirely not true.
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