[Qt-interest] QT for server software

[Jesús Fernández Prieto]

I have written a multiplayer game server in Qt and the experience was
satisfactory.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, R. Reucher <rene.reucher at batcom-it.net>wrote:

> 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
> --
> René Reucher
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