Sometimes, you need to develop a program for the desktop that will solve some problem. To do this, you need to understand programming, to be a well-trained specialist. It is especially difficult to develop a program if you choose the wrong tools for development.
Beginners developers should understand that the language and other tools for development are chosen depending on the task at hand, not from the judgment of what tools are most popular or what is better, this or that language. For instance, people often argue that C++ or C#, QT or Visual Studio, etc. are better. But experienced developers don’t do so, because all the languages and tools are created to solve their tasks, so you need to choose what is convenient to you.
It should be said that the majority starts to develop in Visual Studio, but it can be a wrong choice, because there are many unnecessary things that can distract from the development. Besides, it is better to develop for all the platforms at once, so it is best to use cross-platform tools. Among them, QT stands out – it includes everything that is necessary for software development, including the library itself, IDE, documentation, different compilers, support for different platforms, including mobile.
If you can’t develop in one environment, then perhaps you should try QT. Many people praise this toolkit for a good reason, as it is simple and logically implemented, and you can write powerful programs in C++. QT takes almost all the work of creating the interface itself, that is, there is no need to write standard things, buttons, input fields, etc., simply have widgets. The developer need only deal with his direct task, to implement the desired logic of the program in C++.
Every problem can be solved by searching for a solution on the Internet, and most tasks are often discussed on forums. It is almost always possible to find a solution to your problem, also thanks to the voluminous documentation, which shows almost all aspects of proper development in QT.
Developing with QT is free by choosing an open license, you will only need to download QT and start developing. After development is complete, use the special console utility included with QT to assemble the application in the package folder of the program. It will copy all the necessary files so that your program will work off-line on a PC which does not have QT and its libraries. Then, you can compress the resulting folder into a self-extracting archive SFX, assign it an application icon – so you get one file that when clicked will unpack to the desired temporary folder, and the program will be executed, after closing the program – all temporary files will be instantly deleted. That is, you can do without installers and get in this way a single executable exe file.
As you can see, developing programs for PC using QT tools is not a difficult task, while at the same time you can quickly develop any desktop program with any functionality, because C++ developments are very fast. The C++ language is not so difficult, if you have any skills in developing in another language, you can gradually learn to write in C++.
Thus, QT is probably the best choice for fast and cross-platform development of virtually any software for beginners and experienced programmers alike.