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> My bottom line here is: Right now, and very likely ten years from now, if you are good at at Qt you're probably going to work in a very good and stable job at

by sime2009 7y ago

> My bottom line here is: Right now, and very likely ten years from now, if you are good at at Qt you're probably going to work in a very good and stable job at a solid business. I don't see this being the case for Electron developers, and I know where I'd rather be. What?! If you're specialising in Qt then your skills are tied to Qt and you are tied to the health of the Qt job market. Those skills are not very transferable. On the other hand, 90% of the skills needed for Electron development are web technologies which are relevant to the massive web related job market. I know where I'd rather be.

0lpbm 7y ago
> Those skills are not very transferable. I think you are very wrong. Qt is just a bunch of C++ with preprocessing. Knowing C++ is a very transferable skill.
- sime2009 7y ago
  Yes, I'm fully aware of what C++ is. I'm talking about Qt skills specifically. My point is that in Electron development, the Electron specific skills is very small part of development. Most of the skills and tools used are also widely used elsewhere in industry. This is not the case for Qt work.
sho_hn 7y ago
> What?! If you're specialising in Qt then your skills are tied to Qt and you are tied to the health of the Qt job market. This isn't how it shakes out in practice, though. If you're "specializing in Qt", what you really become is a GUI systems engineer who in the course of their career will learn the fundamentals of many of the things this entails. You'll be the person that knows how the browser works and how to write it, not the person who is beholden to its crummy abstractions on top of better APIs. Case in point - the Chromium/Blink engine used by Electron was originally a Qt codebase (KHTML). Most Qt engineers I know have a lot more fundamental, transferable knowledge than the web engineers I know.

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> My bottom line here is: Right now, and very likely ten years from now, if you are good at at Qt you're probably going to work in a very good and stable job at

by sime2009 7y ago

0lpbm 7y ago
> Those skills are not very transferable. I think you are very wrong. Qt is just a bunch of C++ with preprocessing. Knowing C++ is a very transferable skill.
- sime2009 7y ago
  Yes, I'm fully aware of what C++ is. I'm talking about Qt skills specifically. My point is that in Electron development, the Electron specific skills is very small part of development. Most of the skills and tools used are also widely used elsewhere in industry. This is not the case for Qt work.
sho_hn 7y ago
> What?! If you're specialising in Qt then your skills are tied to Qt and you are tied to the health of the Qt job market. This isn't how it shakes out in practice, though. If you're "specializing in Qt", what you really become is a GUI systems engineer who in the course of their career will learn the fundamentals of many of the things this entails. You'll be the person that knows how the browser works and how to write it, not the person who is beholden to its crummy abstractions on top of better APIs. Case in point - the Chromium/Blink engine used by Electron was originally a Qt codebase (KHTML). Most Qt engineers I know have a lot more fundamental, transferable knowledge than the web engineers I know.