[Kelteseth]

> It's a massive pain in the ass to use

I use it every day. No more pain than any other UI framework

> the licensing is expensive

Use LGPL if your platform allows it

> convoluted

Yes. The Qt company wants you to pay for their commercial license.

> and it codes like you're 20 years behind

With QWidgets yes. QML is the reason I would not want to start a new app in JS/Electron

> The IDE is junk

QtCreator is easily the best c++ in town.

> The slightest version shift breaks compatibility

Never had any problem the last 4 years with my projects upgrading from 5.8 -> 5.15 [1]

https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay

[pjmlp]

> QtCreator is easily the best c++ in town.

Actually I would assert that belongs to C++ Builder, with its RAD tooling.

[dkersten]

C++ Builder costs €1500 for the first year though and the community edition limits you to no more than €5k revenue, while Qt Creator is completely free and open source. So I don’t really see them in the same category, personally.

[pjmlp]

The point is what the tooling is capable of, price not being a factor.

Luckily there are places where employers still see a value paying for tooling.