[Qt-interest] QT for server software

[R. Reucher]

On Mon April 20 2009 08:45:10 Friedemann Kleint wrote:
> > > Of course it is...
>
> Yes, definitely! ;-)
Sorry, I think I was in an ironic mood when answering this :).

Surely, Qt is suitable for this job. If you want to write mission criticial, 
high performance and stable server software, it's more a question of the 
programmer's skills. Qt gives you a framework that enables you to create such 
software in a platform independent way (which IMHO is the most interesting 
aspect of it).

The reason why people tend to think it may not be suitable for this job is 
that Qt is probably more well known as a "GUI framework". But you can also 
write GUI-less / text-only / daemon-like software and still use all 
the "goodies" and methods that are unique to Qt (like the signal/slot 
mechanism for example).

I don't have an example for such a beast at hand, I'm sorry, but that doesn't 
mean it does not exist. What I can say, however, is that I've seen extremely 
expensive so called "mission critical" software not using Qt (oh, "Such A 
Pain" :)!) which really isn't well programmed. Maybe, if they'd used Qt 
instead, they would have made their software really worthwhile using (and 
paying for it), because Qt would've helped them to avoid many of their 
bugs... but then again, this doesn't mean it can "save the world".

HTH, René
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