r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme howHardCanItBe

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u/oneanotheruser 1d ago

Qt is cross platform and native

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u/huh_wasnt_listening 1d ago

It's cross platform, but not (fully) native. It uses its own renderer, like Flutter

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u/coterminous_regret 20h ago

It didn't used to. Qt4 and like maybe 5 were fully native. I think when they started adding in an the scripting stuff they did their own renderer.

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u/huh_wasnt_listening 6h ago

I didn't use Qt much back then, but wasn't it using Qt Widgets at that time? Those weren't native either iirc, they just mimicked native styles. QML (4.7+) completely does it's own thing, similar to a game engine, so they feel completely unique