Is QML dead? Should we forget once and for all about cross-platform hybrid applications on Qt?

Question

Mobile development

This may be a dumb question, but I'd like to know the community's opinion. Around April of this year, I discovered PyQt5 , and a month ago I plunged into the wonderful world of Qt C++ , the world of order and static typing. QML , in fact, interested me even at the stage of working with PyQt5 . I read various articles, on Habré and similar resources, which provided both simple QML + JS + Cpp reviews and statistics on various frameworks for cross-platform mobile development, from PhoneGap to React Native . According to some polls, many consider Qt to be more usable than React Native , which is touted by some of my acquaintances .. However, I don’t see a rush of vacancies for QML development on the same Upwork (4 days ago, 9 days, 20+ days for one vacancy), but React Native , over the past 24 hours - more than a dozen ... Yes, and Xamarin is more interested in people, than Qt . So what happens when the opinion of professionals does not correlate with market demand? Or are they non-professionals who vote in favor of Qt ? Are there any here who are engaged in hybrid development, explain the subtleties? Or, maybe, all this fuss, in itself, is heresy?

Answer 1

My opinion is this:
1) the popularity of QML on the "same Upwork" depends on the popularity of C ++ on the "same Upwork";
2) C++ - the language of large-scale team development, or highly specialized development;
3) orders for large-scale team development will always be only a small part of the orders on Upwork due to the nature of this resource (because this resource does not only have large orders, but ANY orders);
4) Conclusion: Upwork is a poor benchmark for QML suitability for production.
As far as React Native is concerned, it's a tool for engaging the frontend workforce in an area where a QML/C++ specialist would be more expensive. This is a reasonable choice for applications and companies where there are no C++ developers yet, but there are JS developers, and where there is no C++ code base yet, but there is JS, or there is no yet at all.
With about the same success, I can say that Electron is the best tool for the production desktop. Well, it's clear what I'm talking about.

Answer 2

I do hybrid. In my opinion, QML is expensive (like the cost of a developer's hour) for simple interfaces and is not so popular just because of this (ready-made widget-type controls appeared in it relatively recently, but are still damp), but for custom ones: like payment terminals , children's educational programs and other things, it is indispensable, and there is much less demand for this.