[maemo-developers] Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

[From: 3rdShift]

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> 2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter <klaus at rotters.de>:
> >> maemo at bitblit.net wrote:
> >>  > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one
> >> need to
> >>> learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck...
> >
> > I think you'll be able to write them in Python too....
> 
> What always stopped me from writing Qt application was that I had to
> learn a new language to use it.
> Of course the same reason applies the other way around.
> 
> As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++.
> And I don't want to rely too much on Python.

If you plan to stay in the business as career software developer, then
the ability and willingness to retool yourself with new language/OS is a
must. Otherwise, you have a slim chance to make a living for yourself
and your family. Let me see, Algol/IBM360, Fortran/IBM360, PL/1/IBM360,
Pascal/PC, C/Win,UNIX, C++/Win,UNIX,Embedded, Java/* - you get the
picture. And this barely covers first 15 years of paid experience. The
army of software developers is expotentially growing in east europe,
asia, china, india, and here is US and writing new languages has become
extremely easy compare to the old days.

> 
> Also my personal interest in Maemo has been Xournal as eveyone knows,
> but if porting it to Qt involves learning C++.. brrr...
> 
> --
> anidel
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