> They don't really compare. Electron forces you to write the entire application in JS. With QML you only have to write the UI in it. The rest stays C++.
As much as I like C++, the company I work at has been doing pure QML apps and they certainly have been developed faster that the equivalent in C++ would have, with no particular performance problems (but so much bugs though... landmines and unimplemented features (looking at you QtMultimedia and fonts!) under every step). ------- Jean-Michaël Celerier http://www.jcelerier.name On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:39 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > They don't really compare. Electron forces you to write the entire > application in JS. With QML you only have to write the UI in it. The rest > stays C++. > > For desktops, you should be using Widgets anyway though. QML just doesn't > integrate well. It's made for phones, not desktops. It seems like it was > developed in a period of time where everybody was out of their freaking > mind about desktops either dying or all of them becoming glorified tablets. > But we all saw how well Windows 8.0 was received... > > Desktops aren't going anywhere anytime soon. And widgets are the *perfect* > framework for them. QML is nice for mobile. > > > On 15/02/18 03:45, Bob Hood wrote: > >> I'm starting to see more and more software being written in, or being >> ported to, Electron[1] (e.g., Skype's latest v8 update now uses Electron). >> I know QML is supposed to be Qt's solution to cross-device development, so >> I'm wondering if anybody here has had opportunity to actually use both, and >> what insights they might have in terms of comparing QML's declarative >> design to Electron's HTML5 approach. >> >> Full disclosure: I'm a hard-core Qt C++ developer, and I've made no >> secret of the fact that I'm not crazy about QML. However, it's getting >> harder and harder to avoid having to be cross-device in my development, and >> while I know Qt Widgets can run on mobile devices, but it seems like a >> heavy weight and somewhat inelegant approach. Something more designed for >> the task might be my only/better option. >> >> On a related note, has anybody done a QML (e)book yet that is focused on >> its uses in cross-device development? The last/only one I saw seemed to >> focus only using QML to create interfaces from scratch, and that just >> turned me off, coming from the widget-rich environment of Qt desktop. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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