This is my experience as well. Core bugs keep pilling up for years at an alarming rate while they focus on adding new functionality that most developers don’t need.
Their bad licencing made sense back in the day. But they now face strong competition and instead of moving to a more open licence system, they seem to be doubling down. They don’t seem to understand that not only they aren’t the only framework in town anymore, they are currently worse than much better licenced systems.
Re:Leaving The Qt Company
by marcosdumay on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:31PM
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From my point of view, there's a reasonable chance that the entire world sticks with LGPL Qt5.
On top of that, priorities are just different now. I spent an afternoon chasing down why QtCore has incomplete or missing methods for handling JSON documents (TLDR: "won't fix"), but I get a constant stream of marketing email promoting their new in-app advertising structure. And now there's a speech recognition engine?
I'm just done with it all. Guess I need to learn React.