26 engineers on Hacker News describe using Qt first-hand: 7 endorse it, 7 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I have been involved in two non-trivial Qt mobile apps. Never again.”
regret · production · palata · 2026-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I came to regret it, in huge part due to a big lack of components, libraries etc.”
regret · personal · mardifoufs · 2025-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after we switched to qt, and i pretty much soft quit by writing an entirely new native app”
regret · production · secretsatan · 2023-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Qt after all and were happy. Happy-ish.”
mixed · personal · cannam · 2022-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We purchased a small business license for QT 5 and I've never hated a framework more.”
regret · production · Perolan2 · 2022-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The graphical design tools were so much better in Qt. The layouts in SWT sucked.”
endorse · production · ajuc · 2022-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently spent a year working on a Qt app for drawing circuit diagrams... Seriously, for me Qt goes in the "never again" category.”
regret · production · 1 yr · PoignardAzur · 2020-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Qts 4.X webkit implementation is quite powerful we use it in different embedded environments (including Windows CE)”
endorse · production · embeddeddev123 · 2018-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at a previous workpolace we switched to Adobe AIR because of the installer size”
mixed · production · simion314 · 2018-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“QT has been great for the experimental control software we run to perform experiments in our lab”
endorse · production · asafira · 2018-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“where I'm using Qt anyway, I might as well use its threading library for the very nice support it provides for other things such as signal-slot connections across threads.”
endorse · production · gusmd · 2017-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This happens with Qt apps on OS X, as well, and it drives me bonkers.”
regret · personal · santaclaus · 2016-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the QT QML packages for building desktops apps and the results are amazing!”
endorse · personal · jalfresi · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched the build system to autotools in order to get away from the brittle and complex bootstrap system that Qt must maintain.”
regret · production · asermersheim · 2015-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In our previous qt framework we had one xml file per client view... Our consultants understood these files”
endorse · production · ajuc · 2012-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I definitely recommend learning C++ and Qt. ... the signal/slot stuff is awesome, and the community is great.”
endorse · personal · gregschlom · 2010-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the touchscreen frontend (that ran Qt, not an embedded browser) talked to the local backend with HTTP.”
neutral · production · anilakar · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some of these got done in Plasma and KDE software itself, some in Qt 6, where we've been a major contributor to the QtWayland module.”
neutral · production · sho_hn · 2024-02-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I plot using regular qt windows”
neutral · production · cycomanic · 2022-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a few Qt apps and haven't observed anything like this; most likely that's been fixed.”
neutral · personal · chrismorgan · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Junior Qt/C++ developer here. In my opinion, the Qt community is poorly developed and not booming at all currently”
neutral · production · alaenix · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some Qt forms for high-level management, and C++ console apps”
neutral · production · ajuc · 2019-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Here is an implementation for Qt/QML that we use at Ableton”
neutral · production · arximboldi · 2015-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used plain rsync in cygwin through a Multiplatform GUI based in Qt 4.8.x.”
neutral · production · mromanuk · 2015-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the application I developed was essentially a Qt GUI for mastering custom UDF filesystem images.”
neutral · production · mato · 2014-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some use Qt, some use GTK, written in python and some in C or C++”
neutral · production · noselasd · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?