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I didn't forget it, I ignored it b/c it seemed unrelated to your original complaint about a lack of quality libraries. Linux/Windows/Mac support is plenty for m
by bostonpete 14y ago
I didn't forget it, I ignored it b/c it seemed unrelated to your original complaint about a lack of quality libraries. Linux/Windows/Mac support is plenty for many people.
Out of curiosity, what platforms do you need to use which are unsupported by Qt but work well with other languages...?
- pjmlp 14y agoAll the UNIX systems used in Fortune 500 companies, mainframe systems and embedded devices. The consulting world is much more than just Linux/Windows/Mac.
- bostonpete 14y agoWho said anything about consulting? Your complaint was the lack of quality libraries, not the lack of quality libraries which can be used in every possible computing environment. Which languages/libraries work well in all environments?
- pjmlp 14y agoJava for one, as strange as it might seem. Most of those environments have JVMs available. Although. a few of them, like i/OS, still only have Java 5 or 6 available. Don't take me wrong I am not against C++ and do use it in some of my employer projects. Then again we need to fill our code with #ifdefs when the need to support multiple environments with different sets of compilers arises. For example, even Boost with its exhaustible list of compilers and operating systems does not support: - HP-UX - i/OS - QNX - VxWorks - Symbian (yes people still develop for them) This is just one library, it gets worse if we need to take a few proprietary libraries into the equation. Now, for doing native code programming, C++ is the best currently available language, and I wish that with C++11 and the upcoming revisions, it gets better.