Daniel,

I'm not belittling that at all. I totally get it that there are specialized applications that are desktop centric. But it is most definitely becoming a niche, so that's why we are not seeing a ton of resources by vendors dedicated to help build those kind of apps. More and more apps like this end up being pushed to the Web, or even to be built as local Web apps with tools like the Atom/Electron engine that is basically a UI shell ontop of NodeJs to provide HTML and JavaScript with local machine access. More and more even the 'traditional' desktop models are being pushed into HTML/CSS/JS shells.

In the end what really matters is this: Do you have a good product with a good use case? If you do it won't matter much what platform or tooling you use - if it solves real problems that can't be solved another way or there's nobody else doing it - that's all you need.



+++ Rick ----

>Hi Rick,
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>>There may be apps that have stuff local, but I would say that's the exception not the rule by a long shot.Maybe you're specializing in a line of business that does this?
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>Some of us are indeed specializing in applications that do such things. That's my case as well. The truth is that there is now limited support indeed for such developments. Are there still niche markets for this kind of stuff? Most certainly. Of course this is indeed "specialization" as you said.
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>In view of the recent development, my take is QT is alas the only robust game left in town when it comes to such developments when you target multiple platforms. And that's IMHO both a pity and a good thing:)
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>Daniel