[Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

[Jason H]

My statement about Java may be premature, but it is not extremist.

Yes. Sun is dead. Oracle ate them (after they ate themselves). Rumors abound as to why Sun invented Java. I am a fan of they needed to suck up CPU power and sell more chips OR that they wanted a programing environment that would run on SPARC chips. being the OS underdog they needed developers to be writing platform independent apps. If they did Sun could sell them a much faster SPARC chip. (And Sun actually made hardware (chips) just for Java!)
MS completed the concept of Java with .Net (CLR/CLI). 
Industry momentum is for C#/.Net (Job postings)

I'm sure people will continue to use Java, but those are the same people who continue to use Perl. There also remains a niche market from the many more VM platforms supported by Java, which .Net doesn't support.
I hate both Java and .Net because they reinvented the wheel, for their own platforms, right as POSIX compliance was finally getting usable. Now, people ask "POSIX? What's that?"






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To: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de>
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Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 12:44:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7
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@Jason: you really think Java is dead (ie, legacy like COBOL)?  That sounds kind of extremist?