[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Scott Aron Bloom]

       Nikos, I have been reasonably active on this list for 8-9
years...  Im far from a troll..
       
       I make a very good living consulting, primarily on Qt projects..
I have no desire to see Qt go away...
       
       However, being realistic where the world is going, Qt is NOT
positioning itself where the majority of application development is
right now...
       
       The days of large desktop applications driving the custom
development world, are not here.  More money is being made $.99 at a
time, then on 10k-100k custom applications.. This is a very different
world then 2000
       
       That said, Qt as a framework, because Nokia never officially
support iOS and/or Android, is left out of that revenue stream.  I was
really hoping with Nokia moving towards MS, that we would see a Qt for
Win Mobile phones and Windows 8 tablets...  but that is sounding
unlikely...
       
       Do I think Qt is going away quickly.. Not at all.. But I would
also be very surprised if in 2020, anyone is using Qt anymore then
people are still coding today using MFC.. Sure it exists, and plenty of
people do.. But new code of the same ilk (ie windows only) has moved to
C# and .Net or C++/CLI
       
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com] On
Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:02 PM
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

On 10/18/2011 10:54 PM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> But there are projects that do linger on, starving to death with no 
> "end in sight"... No one working on them...
>
> I understand the desktops of KDE and gnome aren't going anywhere that 
> we can see... But if KDE moved into the sunset, and no one really was 
> using it anymore...

It seems that you yourself believe that Qt will go away.  In that case I
wonder why you try to convince others of the opposite.  It seems to me
like you're simply trolling.
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