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by WD-42 254 days ago
I worked on a team the switched v2 of our product from Python + QT to Tauri specifically to get away from QT. If you have any kind of specific design requirements, QT is pain. The ability to use the frontend web stack is a huge win especially for a team that already has frontend developers.

Rust was a nice bonus.
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nly 253 days ago
Did you evaluate QML/Quick?

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquickcontrols-index.html

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kelvinjps10 254 days ago
Doesn't qt also offers a webview solution?
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WD-42 254 days ago
It’s very basic. Good enough for oauth flow but not much beyond that, definitely not to host your entire UI. Also I don’t see what the point of that would be.
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kelvinjps10 253 days ago
My point it's that you said you changed from QT to Tauri because of being able to use frontend frameworks but QT also allows you to do the same. Anki does something like that, but since you mentioned rust that might be the reason of the change to Tauri.
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WD-42 253 days ago
But why would you pull in an entire UI framework, QT, just to use its webview? If it’s not clear, these are local apps we are talking about. The webview loads local content. This is what tauri does.
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