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QtCreator/Qt
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Visual GUI designer
QtCreator has QtDesigner component, allowing you to design a GUI in visual mode instead of raw code.
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Vendor lock on QtCreator
It's not simple at all to use Qt in a different IDE, and you'll lose QtDesigner.
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Ready-made classes for most used tasks in desktop app development
Launching external applications, getting environment variables, putting tasks to separate threads, offscreen painting, transparent loading of most used image formats, even such helpers as opening files in default application configured in OS, cross-platform (!).
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Big overhead
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Cross platform
Qt supports most popular platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. This allows developers to easily port applications to different platforms.
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Electron packages chromium with each app. You app will use more RAM and more CPU than other native desktop front ends.
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Great documentation
Electron has a nice website with great documentation. It also features a lot of samples.
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Javascript, C++, C#, Go, Python, Java
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Github is behind electron and there is a lot of big companies using it to make their cross platform apps.
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