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Just went over the comments and am once again amazed that none of the comments goes into the referenced message; most people discuss something else, or ask ques
by Rochus 4y ago
Just went over the comments and am once again amazed that none of the comments goes into the referenced message; most people discuss something else, or ask questions that are answered in the referenced message; but hardly anyone seems to care that the most important technical head of the company is leaving, or why just now (that he is leaving at this time seems rather coincidental according to the text, and why leaving a well paid, secure position for a startup, at his age?).
- zepearl 4y ago> anyone seems to care that the most important technical head of the company is leaving To me the message didn't sound like a manifest but more like an info (to make the change smooth)? Therefore I guess that people that know QT just don't care about speculating about that (why now/before/later, who cares) - of course this info will be remembered if in the future problems arise.
- Rochus 4y agoThere has been quite a bit of controversy over the direction of Qt. I've been working with Qt for more than twenty years and find the news pretty amazing, as no doubt do many others. With Qt 6, the company has entered similar waters as the developers of Wayland: building something with a lot of effort, that is functionally only marginally different from the established technology, but significantly less mature.
- zepearl 4y agoThx - I used only Qt3 and for a short time Qt4. I liked the dual-license approach, but apparently it's not as "pure" as I thought was?
- Rochus 4y agoQt4 is/was much better than Qt3; and Nokia made it available to everyone under LGPL which was sensational; Qt5 mostly improved modularity and platform abstraction; after the Nokia aera, Qt has given itself a bit of an orientation log, adding features in all sorts of directions that didn't necessarily add to the core proposition, but increased complexity and development effort, without adequate value in my view.
- zepearl 4y agoThanks! Interesting :)
- digisign 4y agoPeople move on for all sorts of reasons. He's probably well off after a long career, so I don't see the point of the ageism at the end of your post.
- Rochus 4y agoIf you don't understand the problem, you probably belong to a younger generation. In older years, you change jobs only when it's unavoidable. In informatics, it is already very difficult to find a job from the age of 45. So there must be important reasons. If he simply wanted to retire, he would hardly have mentioned the startup.
- digisign 4y agoWhile that affects most older workers, one group that it doesn't are famous, well-connected, high-achieving folks. It's not like Guido van Rossum is hurting for work, for example. So he is mostly likely well-off already, and has friends doing interesting stuff. No need to continue working at a boring job.