GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

[Dietmar Schwertberger]

On 23.10.2020 18:52, John Pote wrote:
> I've used tkinter and wxPython occasionally in the past for 1 off test 
> tasks (and interest). What's the advantage of Qt? 

Qt does support mobile and touch oriented user interfaces. Also, it does 
support GUI programs on microcontrollers now on bare-metal.

Desktop development has long moved out of the focus of the Qt company. 
(This shift dates back to the time when Nokia was the owner.)
Just have a look at their start page and you know the focus. Qt company 
is living from expensive industry licenses. Providing frees solutions to 
the open source community is not the core business.

Qt still supports traditional desktop development in form of Qt Widgets, 
but there's pressure to move to QML. This is more comparable to the 
HTML/CSS/Javascript approach.
Personally I would not want to go that way for desktop applications. The 
traditional single-language approach with API and debugger seems much 
more straightforward and time-saving.

For many types of desktop applications I would just recommend wxPython, 
together with wxGlade as a GUI builder. This will provide a quick start 
and high productivity for many tasks.
That's another point: Qt Designer is recognized as one of the most 
advanced GUI builders, but when you actually want to use it with Python 
it does not really help you much. Using it is too complicated for the 
beginner or casual user and for the advanced user it's easier to avoid 
it completely.

Regards

Dietmar