If you really need the full flexibility of HTML/CSS, you can just use QtWebKit a...

monkmartinez · on Feb 6, 2018

Or just use Electron/React-native and skip the pain involved with licensing, packaging, and lack of mobile support.

toyg · on Feb 6, 2018

> licensing, packaging, and lack of mobile support

To be fair, these are different problems from what the grandparent was discussing.

Licensing is a problem a business really shouldn't have: Qt is LGPL and PyQt licenses are cheap even for ramen-eating startups.

Lack of mobile support is a Python problem, I agree there. I can assure you everyone in the Python world is sorely aware of it. Unfortunately, nothing will change until someone does what Google did for Java with Android. But it's a problem that electron apps have too, because "html apps" are still pretty bad on mobile (and terrible on desktop).

Similarly, packaging a PyQt app is not much more of a problem than packaging any app that is not among the "blessed" mobile languages (Java/Kotlin and Objective-C/Swift).

horsawlarway · on Feb 6, 2018

That's crazy! /s

_em6m · on Feb 6, 2018

So... it order to replace Electron, let's use QtWebkit, which is basically Electron? :)

pjmlp · on Feb 7, 2018

If you don't want to learn QML.