[Interest] What don't you like about Qt?

Artem Sidyakin artem.sidyakin at qt.io
Sun Sep 18 00:48:56 CEST 2016


> From what I see, IPTV industry is massively switching away from Qt because LGPL3 is incompatible with clients’ requirements

I’m just from IBC (http://www.ibc.org) and I didn’t see much “switching away from Qt” there. What I saw was switching from LGPL v2.1 to commercial license.

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Artem Sidyakin

> On 17 сент. 2016 г., at 22:59, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
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> 17.09.2016, 23:21, "Sérgio Martins" <iamsergio at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It's not unusual for us developers and contributors to lose
>> perspective of what's important.
>> After many years spent on very particular implementation details, it
>> becomes difficult to see outside of the box.
>> 
>> And because we already know the good aspects I'm asking only about the bad.
>> No need to discuss or reach an agreement, just go ahead and enumerate
>> what you don't like.
>> 
>> Personally, I don't know (too much time inside the box), but after
>> googling these came up frequently:
>> 
>> - C++ is difficult, Qt lacks quality bindings for mainstream languages
>> - moc (on build systems that don't automate this step)
>> - FUD around licensing
> 
> FUD you say? From what I see, IPTV industry is massively switching away from Qt because LGPL3 is incompatible with clients' requirements.
> 
>> 
>> Please state your top ones, even if it was already stated by someone
>> else, so we have an idea about which ones matter more.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sérgio Martins
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> Konstantin
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