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		jeffrallen on May 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaving The Qt Company I worked on a project using Qt for several years. It was okish, certainly a useful cross platform addition to C++ code. But it was so big and so opinionated... I mean come on: C++ has strings, what business do you have adding your own magical strings? It was certainly part of what made me hate programming and then wake up out of my stupor to find Go and learn to love programming again. Bye bye Qt and C++, never going to touch you again if I can possibly help it.

jcelerier on May 18, 2022 | [–]

> I mean come on: C++ has strings, what business do you have adding your own magical strings?

C++'s std::string is Qt's QByteArray though, not QString which represents an actual Unicode string.

brnt on May 18, 2022 | [–]

I love Qt for Python, but in the process of a port to C++ my main wish is modern C++ bindings.

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