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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/7/7  <kate.alhola at nokia.com>:
> ________________________________________
>>On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>>> 2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.
>
> You must also see the thing from Nokia's view. To stay in leading position in
> cellular busines, then ability to renew and respond to challanges is mandatory.
>
> You now who are challangers with fancy animated UI and touch screen,
> to respond this, Nokia need to take next generation toolkit  in use.
> I rather see this as choice between Clutter and Qt. GTK+ is
> previous generation toolkit.
>
> Now Maemo and Symbian developers both are in same situation, they
> need to learn new toolkit that has required feateres to compete
> in market.
>
> Kate

That makes full sense and I was expecting the switch over to Qt.
It's only a shame, for me, that this requires C++ (no idea to which extent).

I am willing to learn C++, but as pointed out by someone else, this is
a hobby and it's already
eating up time. And I don't have that much.
Of course, this is a personal rant :)

I am totally happy for Nokia to switch to Qt.
The move had to be done. I was actually expecting it with Fremantle.

--
anidel