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I'm very nervous about using Qt since they announced they more or less want to get rid of the free edition due to less than expected income. And their commerci
by thePunisher 6y ago
I'm very nervous about using Qt since they announced they more or less want to get rid of the free edition due to less than expected income.
And their commercial offerings are very pricey indeed ($6000 a year).
I'd recommend users to switch to wxWidgets.
- Nokinside 6y agoThey can't do that. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23322197&goto=item%3Fid%3D23321929%2323322197 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23322197&goto=item%3Fi...
- djsumdog 6y agohuh, I didn't realize that. Glad there was foresight to think of this stuff early on in the licensing.
- rapsey 6y agoGood luck trying to make a nice looking UI in wx.
- enriquto 6y agoOr in Qt for that matter.
- slezyr 6y agoTelegram's desktop client uses Qt and all widgets are custom.
- pjmlp 6y agoQuite easy, unless one saves money on designers.
- thePunisher 6y agoI use the free wxFormBuilder designer, which works great.
- pjmlp 6y agoI meant people that work as UI/UX designers.
- ubercow13 6y agoAverage Qt (widgets) apps look much nicer than most modern whitespace-vomit webapp monstrosities
- enriquto 6y agoI agree. I just meant that the look of Qt and wx widgets is essentially equivalent (and not a big deal after all).
- VadimPR 6y agoIt's not 6k a year, there's a cheaper plan now: https://www.qt.io/en-us/qt-for-small-business https://www.qt.io/en-us/qt-for-small-business
- langitbiru 6y agoYeah, $499 per year is reasonable. It's similar to Adobe Creative Cloud all-apps plan pricing.
- nextweek2 6y agoThe main criteria to qualify for that is that your turnover is less than $250,000 per year.
- antaviana 6y agoDidn't Qt also have a similar deal for start-ups a few years ago but that was later discontinued citing of lack of interest?
- edwinyzh 6y agoOr https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ - Decades of active development - Proven concepts (same paradigm as .Net, VB and Delphi) - Supports a lot of OS/CPU. Edit: To get started easily with tasks like cross-compiling, getting the trunk edition, and so on, use (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe) to perform the download and installation.
- langitbiru 6y agoBut it's Pascal. :) Now if there were something like Lazarus, but for Rust, the HN crowds would go nuts.
- edwinyzh 6y agoPascal/Delphi code is soooooo clean to read and code in! And it's quite modern: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoOne wonders why there isn't something like it, but that you can use with any language instead of just Pascal or BASIC or QML+Cpp or whatever the crap Qt uses these days.
- pjmlp 6y agoFirst they need to make the borrow checker more amendable to something like SwiftUI and UI component libraries.
- entha_saava 6y agoThe cognitive overhead of something like rust in non-systems programming is pretty much understated in HN discussions.
- footnipple 6y agoBeing a very long time Delphi and FreePascal user with tens of thousands of lines of code in active use today, I never understood why pascal wasn't running way out front of Go, Rust, Java and all these other performant languages. It's so straight forward and such a pleasure to work with.
- de_watcher 6y agoOh my god, why fresh accounts are always posting FUD in every Qt thread? Is it a campaign or something?
- Macha 6y agoIt's a real enough threat that KDE was worried about it.
- de_watcher 6y agoYou can't "get rid of free version". When you choose this wording or stuff like "someone is worried" then it's a plain FUD.