On Wednesday 05 November 2008 08:39:32 Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> > In contrast, you can implement a GUI toolkit in OCaml that far exceeds
> > the relevant limitations of Qt4 with quite easily.
>
> Jon, did you ever used Qt in a big C++ or Python project? Qt is the
> best GUI framework out there, GTK is a ridiculous toy in comparison,
> and it took ages to reach this level of "completeness". Frankly, I
> think you are heavily undervaluing the task of building a *decent* GUI
> from scratch.

I've implemented GUIs in C++ using Qt, and in OCaml using Smoke, and in F# 
using WPF. Qt is by far the most limited in terms of functionality and is 
filled with incidental complexity to boot. Finally, Qt isn't even safe so Qt 
GUI apps are prone to crashing to the extent that even Trolltech's own tiny 
demo programs crash.

I agree that GTK is worse but my point is simply that Qt leaves a lot to be 
desired, primarily because it is entirely founded upon old-school programming 
practice that is long since outdated.

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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