Why isn't qt so popular

[Thank You]

@JonB
Just to know,
Why they can't ?

Are there any sign about making it free?

HOPE IT BECOMES FREE

[JonB]

@Thank-You
I still don't know, you haven't answered: in your personal case, what is that you need or want the commercial version for as opposed to the free, community one?

[sierdzio]

@Thank-You said in Why isn't qt so popular:

Yes The price is huge point for personal developer.

Yup. Even for big companies, the pricing of commercial Qt is a show stopper.

Can moderators and QT champion raise some voice in it?

I have raised my voice, many times and across multiple channels. No luck ;-) I guess for the Qt Company shareholders are much more important than the community.

[sierdzio]

@Thank-You said in Why isn't qt so popular:

HOPE IT BECOMES FREE

It is ;-) LGPL & GPL licenses are still available.

[mzimmers]

@sierdzio said in Why isn't qt so popular:

Yup. Even for big companies, the pricing of commercial Qt is a show stopper.

I flat-out cannot believe this to be true. The cost of Qt licensing is dwarfed by most Fortune 500 maintenance costs for the Redmond gestalt.

Come on, guys...the real reason Qt isn't more popular is...it doesn't come from Microsoft.

[jsulm]

@thierryhenry14 said in Why isn't qt so popular:

C++ was dead in the enterprise years ago

Oh, really? Need to tell this our company then...

[macfanpl]

@JonB said in Why isn't qt so popular:

What toolkits other than Qt do you recommend for C++ development

Am not C++ guy, so be of little help here, but, as C++ is dying, Id switch to some modern programming language........

[macfanpl]

@jsulm said in Why isn't qt so popular:

@thierryhenry14 said in Why isn't qt so popular:

C++ was dead in the enterprise years ago

Oh, really? Need to tell this our company then...

Really....... @thierryhenry14 meant that development of C++ stopped long ago. Not that usage of C++ stopped.........

[jsulm]

@macfanpl said in Why isn't qt so popular:

development of C++ stopped long ago

Really? What about C++20? 2020 was last year, not "long ago". Before C++20 we got C++17, C++14 and C++11, I don't see how "development of C++ stopped long ago"...

[J.Hilk]

@macfanpl said in Why isn't qt so popular:

Really....... @thierryhenry14 meant that development of C++ stopped long ago

Thats just wrong, c++20 is a thing, you know, this not just an update for the std-library but includes core features thats compiler vendors have to implement
like concepts, three-way comparison etc.

and 23++ already has ton of stuff that is in the making, above all reflection (hope never dies :D)