Qt Quick
Shares rank 35 of 45 GUI frameworks by recommenders
Free UI framework that people find pleasant and fast to build with. Common caveat: many bugs, some never fixed.
Free UI framework that people find pleasant and fast to build with. Common caveat: many bugs, some never fixed.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Pleasant, rapid app development
“Qt Quick and Qt Creator isn't RAD per se but I feel like it gets you close.”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived” “QtQuick/QML/JS is very pleasant and I do wish more people would use it”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Many bugs, some unfixed
“I've encountered tons of bugs (many of them still unfixed) that I had to find very ugly workarounds for.”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML” Lacks polished native-looking widgets
“doesn't have anything like the same set of polished widgets that integrate nicely into the target platform”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies”
Other GUI frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other GUI frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qt | 191 | 133 | 59% | 12 | 15 yrs7 owners | — |
| GTK | 85 | 118 | 42% | 12 | — | — |
| Windows Forms | 76 | 33 | 70% | 12 | 15 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| SwiftUI | 75 | 121 | 38% | 11 | 4 yrs8 owners | — |
| Qt QuickThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“QtQuick/QML/JS is very pleasant and I do wish more people would use it”
“Qt Quick and Qt Creator isn't RAD per se but I feel like it gets you close.”
“QtQuick that nobody likes”
“so many of our customers at Qt use Qt Quick”
“QtQuick uses a different runtime which is (afaik) faster and targets modern graphics backends”
“I've encountered tons of bugs (many of them still unfixed) that I had to find very ugly workarounds for.”
“doesn't have anything like the same set of polished widgets that integrate nicely into the target platform”
“It takes half a day to implement proper hot reload in QtQuick, which also has all the reactive features.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.