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It's UI looks very nice. I hope all native UI's die as soon aa possible. What is last time you have tried gtk on Windows? Or Qt in gnome (yes I know, with some tweaking, it would be better). All of them feel so inconsistent together. At the other hand Web UI (and electron apps) is so nice to work with I don't even consider using native one when there is one with electron engine available.

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I would take a modern QT app over an electron app based purely on memory usage alone. It is no comparison from the potpourri of apps I have tried using both technologies.

Yes QT is more work. But it's kind of like the old adage, you get what you pay for.

Both platforms can be made to look ugly or pretty or inconsistent.

Qt isn't native.

It is, it tries hard to emulate native look and feel with its abstraction layer.

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