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by mastrsushi 1868 days ago
QT, GTK, and all these GUI "toolkits" (love that 90s OOP fetishist term btw) are outdated technology. The future of apps is layout engines, not C/C++ libraries with community mantained bindings to high level languages.

All these XP era look alike apps like Clementine are going to be left for the minority of developers willing to mantain these old projects. Everyone knows that true Unix is CLI, and anything user friendly or consumer oriented will either be on the browser, or run in some render engine like Flutter. To me that's great, the future looks bright and cross platform.