Why isn't qt so popular
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@jsulm No sir, It may not be big amount for you or in your country. But in other countires
it is more than 50k which is soo expensive for begineers to start with. You may think salary may be high but it's 1/3 times less than that monthly.Although I don't work. I am sure it is one of the bigger reason that people don't use it. Instead other frameworks are free of cost. I consider as biggest reason of its low popularity.
If QT will be free, I am sure the no. of developers will increase hugely -
@Thank-You
As discussed, the small business commercial offering does not cost "50k". $500 is not $50k.In any case, the community edition is free, so why not use that? Why do you need the commercial edition?
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@Thank-You said in Why isn't qt so popular:
Nope bro, In other countries it is equivalent to 50K of that country 😂😂 Not dollars
Then say so in your response! I had no idea that your "50k" meant in some unnamed currency, and without knowing the currency it could be the equivalent of $1 for all we know! :) [I remember when there used to be 1,500 Italian Lira to the £, so 50k Lira was like 40$ !]
Can we use community edition for small companies to earn some money??
Yes, of course, 100%. You simply have to abide by the LGPL for the majority of Qt, or the GPL of a couple of optional packages if you use them. But you certainly can earn money from the community edition, without paying a fee or royalties. The commercial version is essentially there if you want to hide your source code, that's all.
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@mzimmers
Yes. I did italicize essentially. I think the poster I was replying to is going to be a "small" user, hence the summary. Other features, and the release support situation, are more likely (italicized again) to be of most interest to "larger" users. -
Why Qt is so unpopular? OK lets dicklate:
- stupid, unclear $500/yr for licence; its counter-productive; when you own startup, and you see $500 tag, you simply go eksewhere; there are tons of raples that are cheaper/free with much greater functions set,
- shit software like kde, gnome, fuckUI, moodle etc
- known installer bugs like having to install SHITAS ( fuck you kde )
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@macfanpl said in Why isn't qt so popular:
- shit software like kde, gnome, fuckUI, moodle etc
3 out of 4 items on your list don't use Qt at all....
- known installer bugs like having to install SHITAS ( fuck you kde )
There is no KDE stuff in Qt installer ;-)
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@macfanpl said in Why isn't qt so popular:
there are tons of raples that are cheaper/free with much greater functions set,
What toolkits other than Qt do you recommend for C++ development with single source for Windows/Linux/MacOS (desktop)?
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C++ was dead in the enterprise years ago. Most people writing new C++ projects these days are writing an OS/browser/game engine/stock trading system, which means it's a very niche language. (think what % these projects are, compared to all new software projects). Universities stopped using C++ in their classes at least a decade ago.
On top of that, the sort of 50yo+ people who still champion C++ in 2020 for general development, hate the readable, well-designed, object-oriented API of Qt, because it's not "pure" C++. They hate that moc adds features to the C++ language that make it more convenient to use, they hate that Qt made their own types even though they're far superior to stdlib's (eg QString vs std::string).
So Qt is a niche framework for a niche programming language.
Edit 1: and for your average mobile developer, the expensive license to be able to publish to iOS makes it a non-starter. Everyone else is fighting to give them free dev tools, but here comes Qt saying "pay us $500/month "or whatever it's at now.
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@thierryhenry14 said in Why isn't qt so popular:
C++ was dead in the enterprise years ago.
LOL. Just LOL.
Technologies come and go, C & C++ stay
"La mort n'est rien, mais vivre vaincu et sans gloire, c'est mourir tous les jours"
~Napoleon BonaparteOn a crusade to banish setIndexWidget() from the holy land of Qt
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@thierryhenry14 said in Why isn't qt so popular:
[...] Most people writing new C++ projects these days are writing an OS/browser/game engine/stock trading system, [...]
10 years of commercial experience and I have never written any of the programs you mention. Nor do I know anybody who did.
Which proves nothing, of course, because we're just 2 blokes in an ocean of developers. I don't know what more proper statistics would show.
Universities stopped using C++ in their classes at least a decade ago.
Not everywhere. It's still surprisingly often taught around here, which is quite stupid.
On top of that, the sort of 50yo+ people who still champion C++ in 2020 for general development hate the readable, well-designed, object-oriented API of Qt, because it's not "pure" C++. They hate that moc adds features to the C++ language that make it more convenient to use, they hate that Qt made their own types even though they're far superior to stdlib's (eg QString vs std::string).
This Qt-hate is sadly true.
Edit 1: and for your average mobile developer, the expensive license to be able to publish to iOS makes it a non-starter. Everyone else is fighting to give them free dev tools, but here comes Qt saying "pay us $500/month "or whatever it's at now.
And this is true as well :-|
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@Thank-You said in Why isn't qt so popular:
Can moderators and QT champion raise some voice in it?
No.
And earlier it was said "pay us $500/month", but it's more like $500 per year I believe for the starting license? I'm not saying that's free, but it's 1/12th of what was stated.
I don't know what facilities of the non-free-community edition of Qt a very small business needs.
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