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Subsurface, the diving software originally written by Torvalds, is moving to QT because they are sick of problems with GTK.

If you follow the mailing list, they're only using the minimal amount of C++ required for QT, otherwise everything is in C. So in 2013, Linus still doesn't like C++.

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Seeing as I consider Qt to be a particularly badly designed C++ library, this speaks volumes about how cumbersome some C APIs are to use. Not that there is any real alternative for a cross-platform UI toolkit.

What do you think of WxWidgets? Better designed than QT? Seems to have a broad range of users. http://wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm

Python & QT could be an option, but the whitespace is annoying (I shudder to think what Linus thinks of it) and in general, I prefer using Go over Python, but the creators have said they will not put any resources into developing official UI bindings, so any efforts are purely third-party.

WxWidgets is some regards similar Win32 MFC. (And anything is better than MFC)

I really like Qt - what don't you like about the API?

The parroted issue people often raise is it makes little/no use of newer C++ features nor the "STL". Not a very good argument though imo. I like Qt.

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