Re:Krita, OpenGL and Qt
by pjmlp on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:50AM
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Might be failing out of fashion, yet Microsoft just bought a Java company, is now an OpenJDK contributor and is one of tier 1 languages at Azure and Amazon SDKs.
Meanwhile, C++ lost its full stack status, the only mainstream OS that still offers C++ GUI tooling, is Windows, and none of MFC, ATL or UWP/WinUI APIs are "Boosty".
What keeps Qt relevant as the surviving C++ GUI framework not stuck in 90's tooling idioms are the paying customers, and those have quite clear ideas which compilers and ISO C++ versions they want to have Qt on.
Meanwhile, C++ lost its full stack status, the only mainstream OS that still offers C++ GUI tooling, is Windows, and none of MFC, ATL or UWP/WinUI APIs are "Boosty".
What keeps Qt relevant as the surviving C++ GUI framework not stuck in 90's tooling idioms are the paying customers, and those have quite clear ideas which compilers and ISO C++ versions they want to have Qt on.