[Development] Question about Qt's future

[md at rpzdesign.com]

Michael:

That is a great question.

I hope you get answers that focus on the mobile side of things (IOS/Android)

With Qt 5.3.0 release just around the corner, will Qt Widgets be able to 
run stable on IOS and ANdroid?

Many comments I have seen on this list refers to Qt Widgets as a desktop 
oriented toolkit, but I ran Qt Widgets in
test on Qt 5.2.1 IOS/Android and they seemed to work.

What is the design pattern/architecture that QML provides that renders 
Qt Widgets obsolete?

Isn't Qt Widgets so mature that they are stable?

Will Qt Widgets / Qpainter be so inefficient on IOS/Android that only 
using QML with screengraph/opengl
is the available choice.

The case has not been made either for or against QML and their use cases 
not well documented
with respect to the amount of focus on QML and the reasons for that 
design direction.

Look forward to the Monday discussion threads....

md

On 4/20/2014 9:40 PM, Michael Knight wrote:
> I feel like Qt is going in the direction of being Qml and Javascript only.I
> fear that they may abandon Qt Widgets in the near future,I think they are
> heavily promoting Qml.I don't want to use Qml,and before I start using Qt,I
> want to be sure that they will not abandon C++ side of Qt and that they
> continue to develop C++ side.It seems to me that they are developing Qml side
> mostly.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
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