It’s true that the cost of a QT licence is negligible compared to the other costs is software development. Here’s a hint – normal people don’t develop in vi or emacs.

Most people who do any development for a living also need proper development tools for Java, many of which aren’t cheap. Being a cross-platform technology that is. Garbage collector or no garbage collector, Java applications consume a huge amount of memory, are far too slow and ironically have a large amount of platform-specific issues on anything that isn’t Windows. Considering that Qt also contributes in development to free applications and desktop environments that you can use, it is more than worth the price. Qt is for people who want to get work done and write cleaner, and less, code. They do things their own way because the C++ standard is utter crap in terms of getting things done. You want to see how much they do spend on software, MSDN subscriptions and Java IDEs!Īnyone else find it ironic that gtkmm is a better C++ binding to gtk+ than what exists nativly with QT? QT was unfortunatly started before the 1998 C++ standard and really doesn’t feel like C++ because they do things their own way. Then you’ve never worked in a small development shop. Of course you could use swt on Linux, but then you’r in trouble if you want to print.įor small development shop, I won’t choose qt. In short, Java is cross platform only as long as you run it windows, QT works well in most places. Neither is, that in my 10 years as a java developer on Solaris and Linux only have been able to fully use my keyboard in java programs for 3 years. In fact I thaught it was rather cute and quite harmless at the time, but it’s not exactly a sign of quality. This goes far back to the Open Look days, where the Trash in the Swedish version was named “Pappersko” that translated would mean “Paper Cow”. Wording like “…if this bug so urgently need to get fixed…” in the bug evaluation, and that there is one more outstanding internationalization bug on the the top 25 list further enhaces the impression that Sun doesn’t care about the desktop or internationalization. The bug is number 15 on the top 25 bug list, and was quite high last time the bug was closed unfixed. Sun doesn’t seem to be very interesting in internationalization or desktop issues. Prior to that there was similar bugs in awt on Solaris back in java 1.1 days. This bug have been around in swing from start (should be about 5 years by now). What characters that can’t be typed varies from locale to locale. Java doesn’t work well on Linux, at least not if you use swing as many characters are untypable on non US keyboards. But if you do want a supported, stable, multiplatform toolkit, then Qt is worth the investment.īetter use Java, has the same, better reputation and is cheaper.

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