[Development] Qt and IoT infographic

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 28 August 2017 at 18:38, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> Timur began working on an simple HTTP server. This is a controversial
> decision, since we've long said that Qt should not be the tool for server-side
> programs.

That might be worth reconsidering as a guideline decision, because
there are some indications
that C++ is being increasingly used as a server-side language.
Anecdotally, I've seen some such
projects, and in one of them there was a need to write a SOAP server
and KDSoap was a fairly
obvious candidate to choose for it. That particular shop was a heavy
user of Qt on the client side,
so having Qt-related parts on the server side was no downside for
them. I have also seen all sorts
of migrations where non-UI code that deals with business logic and
databases gets moved to
a server, and in a bunch of such cases users didn't think twice about
having Qt as a tool for
server-side programs.