On 2010-05-08 09:24:55 -0400, Lutger <[email protected]> said:
2: It's attractive not only because it is so huge, well designed and supported, but also because it performs, is cross-platform and looks good everywhere (as opposed to Java and gtk)
Everywhere? Saying Qt apps looks good and behave well on a Mac is kind of a stretch. I have yet to see one that is not sub-par compared from what I would expect from an equivalent Cocoa implementation.
It's the same for all cross-platform toolkits really: they were first meant to work on Windows or Linux, so they're designed as such and it shows. Here's a nice comment to read:
http://illogic-al.org/blog/look-before-you-leap#comment-74
3: The C++ and meta-object compiler are not the core of it's success, but rather the combination of: - well-designed - HUGE coherent framework - good cross-platform capability - both open source and commercial - used by KDE, sponsored by Nokia
Very true. Qt is well designed and is huge, and is one of the very few sane C++ framework on Windows. I don't want my comment about the Mac look and feel above to diminish that. Qt is a platform that can stand by itself.
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