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Qt5 vs wxWidgets: What are the differences?

What is Qt5? *A free and open-source widget toolkit *. It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

What is wxWidgets? It is a cross platform GUI library. It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

Qt5 and wxWidgets belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Qt5 are:

  • full development framework
  • Internationalization support
  • embedded toolchains

On the other hand, wxWidgets provides the following key features:

  • Support for gesture events (GSoC 2017 project)
  • Getting JavaScript code return value from wxWebView (also GSoC 2017 project)
  • New wxSecretStore class for securely storing user passwords
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Pros of Qt5
Pros of wxWidgets
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    Fast enough
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    Very good documentation
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    C++
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    Open source
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    Cross platform
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    Easy to learn and use
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    Native looking UI
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    Learning Curve
  • 3
    Cross platform
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    Permissive license. Commercial with static linkage.
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    Open source
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    Pure C++ code
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    Python
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    Performance

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Cons of Qt5
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      Uses Qt for GUI (wxQt)

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    What is Qt5?

    It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

    What is wxWidgets?

    It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

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    What are some alternatives to Qt5 and wxWidgets?
    Electron
    With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.
    Kivy
    It is an open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps. It runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, and Raspberry Pi. You can run the same code on all supported platforms.
    JavaFX
    It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.
    pygame
    It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.
    Element
    Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.
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