[Freedombox-discuss] Qt 5 with Rasberry Pi: a delicious mix with home delivery

[Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Marc Manthey <marc at let.de> wrote:
> After Microsofts attemts to get a foot in the door at Nokia at the beginning
> of the year ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680 )
> a lot of developers were concerned about the future of Qt ,  what  would be
> your choice  as plattform independent  development enviroment
> Mono or Qt ?

At the risk of taking part in an off-topic language war, I'd say
neither.  My choice these days is Python code with a web UI, even for
local apps. :-)

Python apps run just about anywhere, Python's standard library
includes a web server and web browsers are standard components...  for
tighter OS integration, things like wxPython or PyGTK make it
relatively easy to build traditional desktop apps as well. You can
even do both in the same program without breaking a sweat.

The big exception would be the embedded platforms - mobile phones and
the like - and there you generally don't have much choice anyway, you
have to use whatever the vendor is pushing, be it Java on Android,
Objective C on iOS or Qt on some of the smaller alternatives.

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