Qt "Quick" !?

[wysota]

Right now, the developer needs to create their own implementation of basic ui components like text boxes, bullet lists, file pickers. They ARE needed, of course, but the developer needs to start from scratch. To argue that you use QML / Qt Quick if you don't need them is kind of stupid - users will always need to interact with your app.

I think what you are saying is that QML/Qt Quick is only useful for developers that want to roll their own components. If that really is the intent, then it is doomed to fail.

No, I mean there are components available for Qt Quick that look and behave as standard widgets.

Nevertheless these two worlds don't mix that much, Qt Quick is good for some problems but useless for others and we all have to accept that. If you look at it from a broader perspective, it's all similar with widgets. If you port Qt to a new platform, you have to implement a style for all widgets as well, practically from scratch. If you used style meant for Windows on a Mac, it would have looked really bad, wouldn't it?