[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Rui Maciel]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> 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.

If you take a look at the list which you described as a "raw dump of 
everyone using a technology" you will notice that it lists a considerable 
number of "important, interesting and/or well-known" users which certainly 
wouldn't be dismissed by any marketing team and which Qt's marketing team 
wasn't able to match.


Rui Maciel