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Fair enough, but I think that the onus of proof is on the weird-language-user here. That is, a discussion of how cross-platform GUI toolkits are a 'trainwreck' takes on a different vibe if you're insisting on using Nim or Left-Handed Pure Phenomenological Haskell or the like.
I think you're maybe over-interpreting the article. There is no (grammatical) article in its title. You seem to be assuming the article is implicitly "the", which would imply that it's intended for a more-or-less universal audience. It could just as easily be "a", which would then mean that it's more of a personal rant about the author's specific situation. I'd argue that the leading two sentences in the italicized p…
Yes, I guess so. I suppose I'm startled that someone would write such an elaborate article about such a remarkably specific situation without some intent to make a general statement, but whatever floats his boat I guess. You're definitely right that interacting with C++ outside of C++ (unlike the C ABI) is painful even before Qt's weird moc stuff gets going.