[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Oct 20 21:59:30 CEST 2011


On Thursday, 20 de October de 2011 20:28:42 Rui Maciel wrote:
> I don't believe it is reasonable to compare wxWidgets with Qt in this 
> aspect.  Even if you do, wxWidgets does sport a very impressive list of 
> users[1], which Qt doesn't quite match[2].  In fact, if we omit KDE and KDE-
> related apps from the list of known Qt users, the list simply isn't very
> impressive.  Therefore, by your criteria, this would indicate that "making
> no money doing it" would be an advantage.
> 
> [1] http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm
> [2] http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/target/desktop

I agree it's not reasonable to make this comparison.

You're taking a list which appears to be a raw dump of everyone using a 
technology to a selected list prepared by the marketing team, highlighting 
important, interesting and/or well-known.

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