# Qt Quick

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Qt Quick and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free UI framework that people find pleasant and fast to build with. Common caveat: many bugs, some never fixed.

## Why people recommend it

- Pleasant, rapid app development (2 comments): "Qt Quick and Qt Creator isn't RAD per se but I feel like it gets you close." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811505)) "QtQuick/QML/JS is very pleasant and I do wish more people would use it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870990))

## What people warn about

- Many bugs, some unfixed (1 comments): "I've encountered tons of bugs (many of them still unfixed) that I had to find very ugly workarounds for." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419203))
- Lacks polished native-looking widgets (1 comments): "doesn't have anything like the same set of polished widgets that integrate nicely into the target platform" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037908))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Qt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qt.md): 191 recommend
- [GTK](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gtk.md): 85 recommend
- [Windows Forms](https://hackerapproved.com/p/winforms.md): 76 recommend
- [SwiftUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/swiftui.md): 75 recommend
- [Tcl/Tk](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tcl-tk.md): 61 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qt Quick", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qt-quick/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).