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Lets hope that tools and frameworks like this will be widely adopted, thus more and more jobs requiring these skills, rather than that crap, over-engineered "na

• matthewmacleod 13y ago
  The modern Android and iOS SDKs are both really quite nice. There are obviously weak spots in both, but neither could really be described as "crap" or "over-engineered." I'm not familiar with WinRT. Still, Qt is pretty impressive. The main problems it suffers from are it's weight, and the issue that all cross-platform frameworks suffer from, in that the GUIs never feel quite right.
• stusmall 13y ago
  What's over engineered about Android? I work with it daily and find it quite nice and it really didn't take too much effort to dive into. Also if you want something small and simple, I think QT might be the wrong tree to bark up. I've only used it on casually used it on desktop but it is not a small framework.
  • zura 13y ago
    Just too much plumbing and boilerplate code is needed to do some simple things... Agree, that for some small projects, Qt can be overkill.
  • joezydeco 13y ago
    Agreed. Qt is not as small and simple as it used to be. If you're a dinosaur like me still using it on smaller platforms, the QtCore and QtGUI libraries can run you north of 10MiB of space. And now QtNetwork always wants to link in, and I can't get it to detach from the link like the old 4.x days.