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by samlewis 2862 days ago
Asking out of mostly ignorance, but is Qt still relevant in 2018?

I've noticed that even for standalone graphical applications, it's becoming more and more common to use webapps - either served locally and accessed through a browser, or through something like electron.

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Depends on the app. I run some things in the browser but if there is a native app for something, it's always more responsive and faster to use.

Qt is very fast and very cross platform and Qt 5 together with Python is coming in a new form:

https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python

Lots of people loathe this trend, so yes, I'd say, anything but web apps packaged as platform apps are relevant.