[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Harri Pasanen]

On Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:01:39 PM Rui Maciel wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 

I beg to disagree.  wxWidget user list certainly looks like everyone and their 
uncle, most being internal projects.

If you count by the number of users, I'd bet Google Earth alone has more users 
than all of wxWidgets projects combined, the same goes for VLC and maybe 
others.   

From technical perspective, I don't know any serious competitor for Qt, if we 
have cross platform as a requirement.  Perhaps Java RCP for some use cases, 
HTML5 for others, but that's about it.

Also, you seem to underestimate the colossal amount of work that is behind all 
good frameworks.

Harri