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by doteka
2225 days ago
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It seems to me that wanting UI developers to learn systems languages is bizarre. We don’t expect Linux kernel developers to learn UI/UX, why would the opposite be the case? They are working on a vastly different abstraction level. Also, yeah, Qt is indeed fast and cross platform. But somehow every single mainstream Qt application tends to look visually terrible and not any more native than Electron. E.g. Ripcord posted above, or Calibre. Meanwhile, mainstream Electron apps may be hogs in terms of performance, but they look polished. Finally, Qt’s weird and deceiving licensing is a major reason I would never touch it with a 10 foot pole. I am not a copyright lawyer and have no desire to figure out how I can comply with LGPL, when Electron is MIT. |
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you know that Electron uses Blink which is LGPL right ? It also ships by default with ffmpeg which is used by chromium for video rendering, which is also LGPL (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:t...).
See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2017-12... - and some LGPL-prefixed files from Blink's source code if you don't believe :-)
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/So...
I'll let you note the large irony of WebKit & thus Blink & Electron originally coming from KHTML, that is, a KDE project originally built with Qt - Lars Knoll at the top of that copyright header is currently CTO of The Qt Company.