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Haha I was typing fast just to show the QML syntax. I don't really think good code is about lower amount of lines, but rather more about "making sense". And that's what I tried to show.

Regarding the timer, so in your Svelte code a new timer is being created each time? I wonder how to implement the efficiently in QML. I don't think it's as straightforward.

EDIT: Probably the best way is to expose QTimer::singleShot (C++) in QML.

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Fair gotcha, yeah honestly I find QML to be super intuitive in the same way Svelte is super intuitive. It feels like two framework authors in very different worlds came to a similar conclusion.

> Regarding the timer, so in your Svelte code a new timer is being created each time?

`setTimeout`[1] isn't even a Svelte thing, it's a JavaScript API that QML would have access to if it was real JavaScript ;).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/setTimeout

I understand, but it's not quite necessary if Qt could add some better functionality exposing C++ code in QML. Luckily, someone created a cool library that allows you to create singleShot timer in QML as follows:[1] `lqtUtils.singleShot(5000, () => console.log("Hello!"))`

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/75288105/5865379

I also used his library to share ENUMs between QWidgets (C++) and QML.

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