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Maemo moving to Qt

Maemo moving to Qt

Posted Jul 22, 2009 8:17 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Maemo moving to Qt by Tronic
Parent article: Maemo moving to Qt

Er, no. GTKmm is merely is the nicest gui library from your personal point of view, not from the developer point of view. It is only your opinion, not a general truth. Other people find Qt much, much nicer -- and that is their opinion. Some people express that opinion rather well, like Guillaume does in http://www.telegraph-road.org/writings/gtkmm_vs_qt.html.

Personally, I think that that the Qt-is-not-C++ meme is pure nonsense caused by prejudice. If it weren't C++, my C++ compiler couldn't compile it. It can, so it is. Whether or not you like its use of generated macros and generated C++ is your opinion, but it doesn't change the language at all. They are convenient, and in about ten years of Qt coding, they haven't hindered me when debugging at all. The introspection and runtime flexibility it gives me is very valuable.

And one real fact is that people using Qt are very productive. That's easily proven by seeing all the things that are produced using Qt.


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