QML is in the category of "learning a new language", although last I tried it it was very much a work in progress. Can't speak to how good it is today.
Re:Flutter desktop shells
by darpa_escapee on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:56PM
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Last time I played around with QML, it was basically Javascript.
QML is a declarative language; it has curly braces like JS, but that's about it. It also allows you to extend it with (some old, possibly noncompliant version of) JS, but the declarative markup is a distinct language.
That's like saying every YAML or JSON dialect is a new language. Sure, but not a full-fledged "programming language". QML is quite nice to work with, and well suited to the problem at hand.
Granted, it's not a general purpose programming language, but it has a comparable learning curve. Certainy many times steeper than YAML or JSON or other markup languages.
I heard that qml/qt quick had worse performance.
Though Qt Widgets in C++ isn't too bad if you use the designer instead of insisting on doing everything in code.