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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/7/7 3rdShift <3rdshift at comcast.net>:
> 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.
>

I know that you need to be up to date with nowadays technologies.
Not sure, though, I am willing to do it for this hobby.

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anidel