Current Issues with the Qt Project – From the Outside Looking In

• Elm

  198 7,446 5.4 Haskell

  Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.

  

> How would a user interface written in a functional language look?

Maybe you're not aware of Elm?

https://elm-lang.org

Elm is really functional, unlike the likes of React that are just partially, kind of functional.

There's an attempt at bringing Elm to the desktop, the Roc language... here's an UI example written in Roc:

https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/examples/gui/hello...

• roc

  23 3,516 10.0 Rust

  A fast, friendly, functional language. Work in progress!

  

> How would a user interface written in a functional language look?

Maybe you're not aware of Elm?

https://elm-lang.org

Elm is really functional, unlike the likes of React that are just partially, kind of functional.

There's an attempt at bringing Elm to the desktop, the Roc language... here's an UI example written in Roc:

https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/examples/gui/hello...

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• notes

  35 3,526 8.0 C++

  Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

I beg to differ, QML is great. I'm implementing a feature that converts all tasks in Markdown editor to a Kanban view (written in QML) and it's been so easy to do. Work in progress GIF here: https://imgur.com/a/sZNHnp6

And it's even crazier that most of it compiles to C++. It's so fast to develop with it, and runs so fast.

BTW, source code here: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/pull/574

• imgui

  351 55,570 9.7 C++

  Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

True, some modules are under the GPL only. Here[0] is a very nice website showing an overview.

As for alternatives there really is not much to choose from. For small projects which are not reliant on the performance/native designs of Qt Dear ImGui looks nice[1]. But it is very much tailored for a different Use Case.

[0] https://www.qt.io/product/features

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

• slint

  138 14,929 9.9 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  

Shameless plug for an alternative to Qt I've been working on: Slint https://slint-ui.com

• qskinny

  5 1,279 9.6 C++

  A lightweight framework on top of the Qt scene graph and only few classes from Qt/Quick. It is usable from C++ and/or QML.

That's exactly what we are doing with QSkinny: https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny, we have been using it for a customer project for years now...

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