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My point is not about lack of usability or documentation. Rather that the nature of HTML+CSS+JS lets you do things you can't do as easily in either GTK or QT. In the latter, yes you can easily achieve a certain kind of UI, but not deviate from it, and even formatting/displaying a significant amount of information that doesn't fit into one of the classic widgets can be a bit of a pain.



That depends a lot on what you're used to. It takes me far less time to implement a custom widget that can format/display a significant amount of information that doesn't fit into one of the classic widgets than it takes me to fiddle with CSS to get it to center things correctly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.


Qt also has QML which allows you to do things similar to what you would have with the combination of HTML,CSS and JS


Have you tried creating a custom date picker in those? I am fairly sure web tech would come out last with the infinite amount of divs here and there.




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