I don't know how to choose the GUI develop tech

I mainly work on C#, and WPF is my first choice when I make desktop software. But I am lack of C++ experience, and I want to develop 开发者_开发知识库some desktop software in C++, now I have some problem with the GUI framework. I'm learning Qt, and compared to WPF, I have much more code to write, I like the XML way to describe GUI. But Qt's XML doesn't have many functions like WPF, and I don't like the new qml. I heard about lua + xml to make the GUI. It's inspired me, I think may be I can use python or ruby do the GUI (in xml way), and C++ do the logic, does there any solution? Can somebody give me some links or advice?

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You say you like declarative UI but you don't want to use QML? What don't you like about it? Have you used it?

Qt + QML will likely be the most convenient way to develop a GUI application in C++.