> You can write a pretty and functional Electron app in a weekend.
You can also do so in Qt and other frameworks.
The fact that you are proficient in web frameworks does not mean other tools are less productive.
In fact, being proficient in modern web dev, including HTML, CSS, JS, TS, React, etc. takes way longer than learning something like Qt. And if you go to easier frameworks like Delphi or VB6, you would be amazed at the productivity speed.
"In fact, being proficient in modern web dev, including HTML, CSS, JS, TS, React, etc. takes way longer than learning something like Qt."
But there are already a ton of web developers who already know those web development technologies, but don't know Qt. So it would be extra effort for them to learn Qt. Much easier to just use React.
The same thing goes for why there so many academics write Java apps for their proof-of-concept research work. That's what they're taught in school and for many that's all they know.
Curiously, Python was able to make huge inroads in to the academic community, but that was largely due to having a killer app (Jupyter notebooks) along with having a bunch of desirable tools for scientific computing, data processing, and visualization. I'm not sure if there's anything as compelling in the Qt ecosystem that would be as attractive to web developers who already know HTML, Javascript, React, etc.
You can also do so in Qt and other frameworks.
The fact that you are proficient in web frameworks does not mean other tools are less productive.
In fact, being proficient in modern web dev, including HTML, CSS, JS, TS, React, etc. takes way longer than learning something like Qt. And if you go to easier frameworks like Delphi or VB6, you would be amazed at the productivity speed.