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Any previous solution to do UI: QT, GTK, WX, etc were cross plateforms.

I don't think that's it.

Electron make it easy, if you know front end dev, to do an app. It's easy to package as well.

I don't know if you tried to design a beautiful QT app, but it's hard. A beautiful QT app with medias capabilities ? Extra hard. Packaging that? A royal pain.



(minor side-note, since it's repeated: it's Qt. small "t".)


Yeah, because centring divs or making drop down menus out of unordered lists is so easy.


You don't, you have kits to do most things for you. That's the beauty of it: you can reuse the entire web community assets.

And when there are no existing widgets, crafting one is way, way easier than with QT. Especially with break points.


Yeah, right because component libraries aren't a thing in native UI since the early 90's.




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