Future of Qt
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Beta is on it's way, apparently. AFAIK, Qt offices are still open and working on Qt5. There is still a lot to be done, though, 5 is not a small update, but a major improvement. As for Nokia itself, it remains annoyingly silent, or at least I have not heard any news in the last several weeks.
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For anyone having doubt that Qt is beeing worked on I invite them to join "Gerrit":https://codereview.qt-project.org/, "IRC":irc://freenode.net/#qt-labs or the "mailing list":http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development.
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I hopes we will have trustable and long term good news for Qt ... Desktop and Mobile Crossplatform .. I don't know if it's better to find alternative for mobile crossplatform (Mosync? Marmalade?)? It would be so fantastic to have a true Qt Desktop/Mobile Crossplatform Qt5 SDK !
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Unfortunately, mosync and marmalade don't support desktop platforms, unless you go for HTML/JS developemtn, neither is their native API as clean as that of Qt.
Mobile platform support (official) has been my hope for Qt, aside from a great market opportunity. Alas, this is simply impossible under Nokia, as for iOS support, even if Qt ownership shifts to someone, willing to support major mobile platforms, Apple has practically made it impossible to be 100% compatible with Qt (or vice versa). At least a 100% working android port is possible, but android itself is flawed, at least in my case, by dreadfully slow IO, be that sound or touch.
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The news of the day is not so good... There was a message on the developers mailinglist that the Brisbane office of Qt, where people are working on Qt3D, QtDeclarative, QtMultimedia, QtSensors, QtLocation and QtSystems modules, will be shut down at the end of the month.
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Yes it on the web as well "here":http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1MTM and "here":http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-August/005467.html
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I am a beginner of Qt and I like to write codes with Qt.
It is a sad news for me, what could we do to help Qt? -
Lear and use it, contribute to Qt-project if you want to. Qt is having a hard time, true, but it's also a FOSS project now, so we have to keep it alive ourselves.
