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Qt is amazing business. Somebody is buying. Double digit growth rate year after year. - €200M net sales - 1.5M developers, - 3,500 commercial customers
by nabla9 2y ago
Qt is amazing business. Somebody is buying. Double digit growth rate year after year.
- €200M net sales
- 1.5M developers,
- 3,500 commercial customers
= €150 per developer/year
= €60,000 per customer/year
- €2.2B market cap.
- nottorp 2y agoWell, it's easy when you're the only decent [1] cross platform UI library left on the face of the earth that does not instantiate a browser. Also the only option to get a lot of infrastructure pre done for embedded projects. [1] My friends who still do Qt whine occasionally about quality going down, but it's not like they have other options.
- throwway120385 2y agoThese guys were pretty good when I used them: https://www.cranksoftware.com/storyboard https://www.cranksoftware.com/storyboard.
- joezydeco 2y agoI used to look down on Crank like it was the next coming of Flash Lite, but after finishing a project in QML and realizing most of the heavy lifting was connecting the Javascript components to business logic C++ code running underneath through their clunky interface methods... it's pretty much the same thing. And I bet Crank will actually run on a Cortex-M3.
- not_the_fda 2y agoCrank doesn't scale. The project is a binary file. You can't have multiple people developing screens. Its fine for small projects, anything big and it falls apart.
- CamperBob2 2y ago"Get a quote." Cue Bugs Bunny: "Nooooo."
- bigfatkitten 2y ago"Someone" in this case is almost the entire automotive industry, among others.
- synergy20 2y agowhich could be overtaken by AAOS(android auto) down the road?
- bigfatkitten 2y agoFor infotainment certainly, maybe not for instrument clusters, especially in base model or commercial vehicles.