The Qt Company Provides A Brief Comment On Open-Source

[Mark625]

Either way, it's a bit overkill to do a "Hello, World!" example using both toolkits base classes for top-level windows that need support for a full system of menus plus various other built-in features. (More in Qt's case than GTK's)

...especially when it's not uncommon in the world of Qt to take advantage of the "any QWidget can be a top-level window" feature to put together minimal test applications for custom widgets.

I think we're both in agreement about Qt and Gtk. I was just trying to post the equivalent to the Gtk example. The other attempts were not equivalent in functionality or appearance.

Cheers!

[Indomitable]

So, Reading a lot of comments comparing C and C++ while in the GNOME 70% of the code is JavaScript almost the same with Qt in QtQick. I don't understand what kind of masochist you should be to use C a language created for microcontrollers and drivers to write desktop applications. Luckily C++ was updated in the last 10 years, but still comparing it with modern languages like GO, Rust and Swift it looks complex and difficult. Using C to write rich interface which contains a lot of asynchronous code and hundreds of events would be a nightmare, that's why GNOME apps have 2 or max 3 buttons.

[ssokolow]

Luckily C++ was updated in the last 10 years, but still comparing it with modern languages like GO, Rust and Swift it looks complex and difficult.

More complex than it looks at first glance. See, for example:

• SFINAE
• The Errata Evaluation Problem (Scott Meyers, formerly one of the top C++ experts feels that, after only two years away from it, he'd already forgotten too much to trust himself to judge the correctness of code)