[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/18/2011 11:37 PM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> One of my MAIN points to take from this discussion...		
>
> Qt could become a major player, if the people in charge, and even with
> open governance there will be people in charge... Chose to active
> support and port to both iOS and Android...
>
> Even if its "QML" only support...

You didn't state that you want a commercial toolkit.  Me, I don't care 
if what I use is commercial or not.  It makes absolutely no difference 
to my productivity.  I can write good looking, cross platform 
applications with Qt and I don't need it to be commercial in order to do 
that.

Also, Gtk 2, before the development of Gtk 3, has been stagnant for a 
long time.  Yet it didn't hinder people using it and writing good 
applications for it for many, many years.  Same goes for the win32 API.

Furthermore, people still use Qt 4.4 to write their apps.  So even if 
development of Qt slows down to a crawl, you cares?  You keep using it 
as it is.  For as long as its being maintained (bug fixes and such), 
it's an awesome API already.  Some people would even welcome the 
stability that would bring (see Gtk and win32.)