On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:41:25 PDT Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: > > Research shows NO ONE deploys Arduino for real products. It's a maker toy, > > stuff hobbyists use to make one-off things and some professional makers > > use > > for initial prototyping. When they get serious, Arduino goes out the > > window > > and they get real boards. > > Sure, but if you can't start prototyping with Qt there's not much chance > you're going to switch to Qt when your prototype is running and you have to > start working towards the actual product.
Actually, the Arduino case here is relevant. People do start with Arduino and then they switch to something else. So there is a precedent on rewriting. But I do take your point. > Besides, this comes a bit as disdainful. I work in music research and > *everything* embedded uses Arduinos, Pi, Beaglebones or similar. If you > have seen interactive artistic installations in museums, outdoor > expositions, or contemporary concerts, there is a huge chance there's a Pi > or an Arduino running somewhere. Sure, there aren't "products" that end up > produced thousand times and sold on the counter or at Moser, but they are > shows, expositions, etc. which generate revenue all the same, for the > artists, museums, etc. and need programmers to get the stuff running and > banging sound. I was talking about production runs, where you make thousands to millions of exact copies. I guess I wasn't very clear about that. For one-offs or maybe tens of copies, sure, there's a lot of Arduinos. And a lot of Raspberry Pis too. For production runs, that number goes very quickly to zero. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
