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I think Qt is only missing well-written, feature-complete bindings for a major JS runtime, including support for hot reload.

Developing UIs without hot reloading is too painful.

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I think what you're asking for has existed for a long, long time. QML.

QML doesn't have a way to define interfaces with JSX and doesn't integrate with the wider JS tooling. From my very limited experience, it still feels too close to the C++ world.

This isn't true, but I understand why you feel that way.

Qt had bindings to many languages, C++ is a choice, not a demand, if you'd like to use Qt.

> This isn't true, but I understand why you feel that way.

By all means, I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Last effort I saw on this direction was node-gui + React. I believe that project isn't being maintained. Being able to use something like Vite to build desktop programs would be a blessing.

QML is an entirely separate widget toolkit that really isn't a great fit for desktop programs - it's not much different from using a web-based toolkit.

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