If you're doing commercial development, why is a license (and the attendant support) a big deal? Its cost in relation to that of your developers is neglegable.
Or is the cost of the license really that prohibitive for a well supported and performant piece of software?
[EDIT]: I found the pricing after a bit of creative googling: Startups is about $1,000 a year, non-startups are about $3,500 a year. Even without the discount, that's roughly equivalent to a month of one developer's time. IMO, not a terrible deal, for something you can freely license and use for cross platform development.
Re:Electron considered harmful
by witty_username on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:47PM
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Qt is LGPL, you don't need to share your application code; you only need to share Qt's code (which only matters if you modify Qt).
(not legal advice; I'm not completely sure about this)
> The LGPL allows you to keep the source code of your application private as long as it is “work that uses” the library. Dynamic linking is usually recommended here.
The JS performance issues should go away for the most part when wasm is standard. Also a lot of people write some compile to JS language, not JS, so I think that most of the points of this blog will be rendered moot in the near future.