What is Qt? Can someone explain it like i'm 5? The video in that blog post makes it look really scary!

It’s a library for making windows, buttons, etc (called widgets), for windows Linux and macOS.

If you’d like to make graphical applications though, I recommend immediate mode frameworks

https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear