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

1. Elm

   1 213 7,650 4.0 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...

2. Stream

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3. roc

   2 26 5,082 10.0 Rust

   A fast, friendly, functional language.

   

   > 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...

4. notes

   3 39 4,026 8.2 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

5. imgui

   4 377 66,737 9.9 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

6. slint

   5 151 19,800 10.0 Rust

   Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.

   

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

7. qskinny

   6 5 1,575 9.3 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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