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Licensing has gotten much worse, so much so that my current firm is sticking with our Qt5 contract and will not negotiate to Qt6. So we're hitting the end of t
by joezydeco 4y ago
Licensing has gotten much worse, so much so that my current firm is sticking with our Qt5 contract and will not negotiate to Qt6. So we're hitting the end of the road with Qt in the next few years.
On top of that, priorities are just different now. I spent an afternoon chasing down why QtCore has incomplete or missing methods for handling JSON documents (TLDR: "won't fix"), but I get a constant stream of marketing email promoting their new in-app advertising structure. And now there's a speech recognition engine?
I'm just done with it all. Guess I need to learn React.
- bsnal 4y agoThis is my experience as well. Core bugs keep pilling up for years at an alarming rate while they focus on adding new functionality that most developers don’t need. Their bad licencing made sense back in the day. But they now face strong competition and instead of moving to a more open licence system, they seem to be doubling down. They don’t seem to understand that not only they aren’t the only framework in town anymore, they are currently worse than much better licenced systems.
- marcosdumay 4y agoFrom my point of view, there's a reasonable chance that the entire world sticks with LGPL Qt5.