TodoMVC-QML

> The recent Component based model of composing UI - the runtime mutations of the elements are expressed as state updates inside the UI declarations itself(and declarations are usually done with a turing complete language) is pretty much how Qt does it with QML (released in 2011), except that instead of requiring explicit function calls, the variables are themselves reactive so that: Button { text: "foo" + counter.value } updates automatically whenever "value" changes. See e.g. https://www.qt.io/product/qt6/qml-book (or a small TodoMVC example I did at somepoint to see some actual code: https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML/blob/master/Main.qm... )

Thanks, I'll keep using QML (https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML) ;p

you mean like this ? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-material.html here's a todomvc in it : https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML :)

note that a TodoMVC-like example can be reached in less than 150 lines of pure QML : https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML/blob/master/Main.qm...

> That's a killer UI, and I'm happy to admit it's incredibly good for what I've seen/used of Qt apps over the years... but it's not the norm. It's the norm for Qt apps since 2011 - 2012 when qml was introduced (of course, older apps use the older tech - and honestly, sometimes it makes more sense : at least all the colors, fonts, etc... will respect your desktop theme unlike "modern" toolkits). Here's how some QML code looks: https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML/blob/master/Main.qm... ; as you can see, it's far from bloated (mostly due to the language being based on reactive semantics). For instance a consequent part of KDE has been rewritten in QML and more is underway with Kirigami : https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/12/kde-releases-kirigami-ui-20

Here's how to do a TodoMVC with Qt. It takes less than 150 CLOC tops. No need to override whatever paint method anywhere. https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML/blob/master/Main.qm...

Qt with QtQuick is awesome, and not bloated :D (as in, it's good enough to work at very decent framerates on embedded systems) Here's a simple example: https://github.com/jcelerier/TodoMVC-QML Notice how the whole thing is a bit less than 150 lines, whereas for instance a Vue.js (the web framework the closest to QML in concept I'd say, though JSX is also not far) implementation is around 200 lines with HTML / CSS / JS (even though they say 120 lines?) : https://fr.vuejs.org/v2/examples/todomvc.html