> If most of your logic is inside the C++ backend, its JS engine is just useless overhead.
Well, if most of your logic in C++, what's the problem then? For my app[1] most of the logic in C++ but there's still a good amount of logic in JS (out of laziness or ease). BTW, much of QML code is compiled to C++ these days[2]
> difficult to diagnose issues like data getting passed by reference from the previous page and that page getting popped off the stack, resulting in error.
This is very true, it's quite difficult to diagnose issues in QML, and it doesn't seem to me like Qt ships debugger tools for errors as available for C++ when a program crashes.
I relate to your issues with syntax highlighting (although the linter is good imo). Also auto-complete is pretty bad in Qt Creator for QML.
I wonder how feasible it is to integrate Typescript into QML rather than JS.
But I think that while all these issues should be addressed, developing with C++ and QML is the most joyful combination I've experienced so far for GUI development (I also developed in React and React Native).
Well, if most of your logic in C++, what's the problem then? For my app[1] most of the logic in C++ but there's still a good amount of logic in JS (out of laziness or ease). BTW, much of QML code is compiled to C++ these days[2]
> difficult to diagnose issues like data getting passed by reference from the previous page and that page getting popped off the stack, resulting in error.
This is very true, it's quite difficult to diagnose issues in QML, and it doesn't seem to me like Qt ships debugger tools for errors as available for C++ when a program crashes.
I relate to your issues with syntax highlighting (although the linter is good imo). Also auto-complete is pretty bad in Qt Creator for QML.
I wonder how feasible it is to integrate Typescript into QML rather than JS.
But I think that while all these issues should be addressed, developing with C++ and QML is the most joyful combination I've experienced so far for GUI development (I also developed in React and React Native).
[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
[2] https://www.qt.io/blog/the-new-qtquick-compiler-technology