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by lpghatguy 1588 days ago
C++ is not nearly as productive a language for most programmers in the world as JavaScript. Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps. The condescending tone to web developers is very strange and not very nice.
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> Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps

My point is: all achievements in web dev modularity and features have been present in Visual Basic, Delphi, TurboC++, Java and Qt since the early 2000s. Fully hardware accelerated UIs to boot. Well, we decided to move it all into the browser sandbox and start from scratch. Tools like QtCreator or the VisualBasic form editor got replaced by an expensive toolchain ranging from Adobe products to 1000 npm packages.