Editing Qt (software) (section)

== Purposes and abilities ==
Qt is used for developing [[graphical user interface]]s (GUIs) and multi-platform [[application software|applications]] that run on all major [[Desktop computer|desktop]] platforms and mobile or embedded platforms.
Most GUI programs created with Qt have a native-looking interface, in which case Qt is classified as a ''[[widget toolkit]]''. Non-GUI programs can also be developed, such as [[Command-line interface|command-line]] tools and consoles for servers.  An example of such a non-GUI program using Qt is the Cutelyst [[web framework]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cutelyst.org/ |title=Cutelyst - Home}}</ref>

Qt supports various C++ compilers, including the [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] and [[Clang]] C++ compilers and the [[Microsoft Visual Studio|Visual Studio]] suite.  It supports other languages with bindings or extensions, such as [[Python (programming language)|Python]] via Python bindings<ref>{{
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Other features include [[SQL]] database access, [[XML]] parsing, [[JSON]] parsing, [[Thread (computing)|thread]] management and network support.