[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Paul Miller]

On 10/18/2011 4:01 PM, Bob Hood wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 2:37 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...
>
> I might agree with you on that point, Scott.  However, going back to the
> original post, I am concerned about Qt's "desktop" support.  No matter how
> long you live, you will never see a special-effects-laden television show or
> movie produced exclusively using a $.99 "App" on some $300 mobile hardware.
> It won't ever happen.  They will always be using high-performance desktop
> applications running on incredibly expensive, stand-alone computer systems.
> And this is only one example.

I happen to write several of these well-known (in the industry) 
commercial desktop applications used to create "special-effects-laden 
television" shows and movies, using Qt, and I'm not concerned. Many 
products in the industry all use Qt as well - we all use it. As long as 
Digia sticks around we'll keep paying them, and if they drop Qt we'll 
use a fork. There is just too much reliance on Qt at this point to watch 
it die away and then just switch to some other toolkit.