You can make Qt look however you want. The point is that it will give you native UI by default (for the most part and excluding QML)

That native UI will be faster than Electron and most other retained UI toolkits and will be just as capable of creating whatever your subjective view of “modern UI” is.

I'm still waiting for a single Qt-based app on macOS that feels like a macOS app. They look more like some Windows 95-era app wearing the Aqua skin peeled off the carcass of some slightly older-and-definitely-not-current version of macOS.

Don't confuse UI and UX. You can make Qt have the right UI, you can't make it have the right UX.

This is also why electron and other frameworks really devalue MacOS. Back in the day anything not built with Cocoa felt off, there was a difference in usability.

Now we take it for granted, and Mac apps feel as good or bad as everywhere else.

Qt will look like AppKit. Because it is AppKit under the hood .

The person who made a Qt app may be designing it based off of cross platform UX but maybe you should follow your own advice and not conflate things.

You can make a native UI and UX with Qt. You can also make things feel very non native via AppKit too. Your argument has very little to do with the toolkit and more to do with the developers choices.

I'm with zapzupnz here.

I haven't seen what you describe, even if it's theoretically possible. I'd really love to be shown an example.

I'm not saying it can't happen, and in fact, if it existed I wouldn't have noticed (I mean, the point is that you think it's native, so I wouldn't have noticed..) but I can't think of an example and I would love to see one.