@chris
@lem.cochrun.xyzId suggest rust, gets you a step closer to the hardware and a bit of a different paradigm than Java while still feeling high level.
I have been building a Qt/KDE app in rust using that CXX-QT binding. It's pretty good, but definitely more of a headache to work through the binding than just directly with C++. That being said, I don't feel like I'm about to shoot myself in the foot with rust. Rust just protects and advises the best paths forward. Once KDAB solidifies the binding and perhaps makes it easy for others to create their own extra bindings, (which they don't want to maintain every class in QT so this is necessary) it'll be amazing.
While that's true, all the things they built are individual and open source, it wouldn't take too much work for sometime who knows how to package things up for a phone app. That said, you'd need another device to do all the processing.
I'll be honest, I've used scribus some and have not liked it. I hope that this makes it better. I much prefer a local Foss program to being forced to run a VM for publisher or make stuff in canva.
Is this for real? So I shouldn't be worried about using certain websites that they'll track me around?