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I'm not a lawyer, I wish it's as simple as "it's just LGPL", it's not.

Otherwise Qt has already conquered the desktop GUI world, it did not for a reason: the license mess.



It did conquer (-ish) the desktop GUI world, for a while: quite a lot of software was written in it.

And then Electron happened.


> And then Electron happened.

Which is worse for users, but better for developer productivity (probably nicer for developers too: C++ is not exactly fun).

I am still hoping that JVM Desktop apps come back at some point, maybe with Kotlin Multiplatform?




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