> How else would you explain the rise of HTML/JS/Electron and the fall of C++/Qt in the UI world?
Does this "fall" really exist though, or is it just the byproduct of extremely intense marketing from the HTML/JS/Electron software authors ? I'm pretty confident that there are more desktop software being written today in Qt than in Electron - but most of the time they don't end up plastered all over the interwebs for the simplest todo-list app.
Are mediocre C++ devs that much more expensive and rare than mediocre web-devs? Certainly in the field I work in (civil engineering) you're probably far more likely to run across someone who can cobble together a simple GUI tool in C++ than you are someone who could cobble together the same thing in Electron.
Does this "fall" really exist though, or is it just the byproduct of extremely intense marketing from the HTML/JS/Electron software authors ? I'm pretty confident that there are more desktop software being written today in Qt than in Electron - but most of the time they don't end up plastered all over the interwebs for the simplest todo-list app.