Qt 5.0 alpha released today
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I hope the trolls will decide to use transifex.net for localizing and translating Qt5.
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I read about the announcement and this is exciting, especially for an open source project.
By the way I'm still too inexperienced on Qt in order to fully understand the benefit.
Considering that I am solely developing desktop application (cross platform), which benefit will Qt Quick / Qt 5 gain to this? And why JS/QML would improve productivity?
Consider that I have chose Qt as my developing environment since I want to stay away from MSdotNet and interpreted code. Do you consider that, looking at the future of Qt, it is still a good choice?
Thanks for the support, and sorry if I am OT.
Regards,
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bq. Considering that I am solely developing desktop application (cross platform), which benefit will Qt Quick / Qt 5 gain to this? And why JS/QML would improve productivity?
I guess that depends a lot on the type of application you are writing:-)
I work on Qt Creator which is a mostly QWidget based application. We also use Qt Quick already in places -- most prominently on the welcome page -- and expect to see more and more use of it, simply because it does make highly customized, interactive UIs much easier to implement. For now we will continue to use QWidgets wherever more traditional UIs are required.
I think Qt Quick is really cool, but I definitely am not going to replace all the existing UIs I wrote with Qt Quick just for the fun of using it;-)
bq. Consider that I have chose Qt as my developing environment since I want to stay away from MSdotNet and interpreted code. Do you consider that, looking at the future of Qt, it is still a good choice?
Qt5 has quite a few cool new features that have no relation to Qt Quick at all. More modular (no need to drag in stuff you do not need), better regexp engine, enabling new C++0x language features, ... Read Lars' blog for the highlights.
From my point of view you get all the good stuff from Qt4 and in addition you also get a new option for highly dynamic UIs. So if you like Qt4 you should also like Qt5:-)
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Hi Tobias,
thanks for the hints and suggestions.
Well, the application I need to develop are mainly DB front end for internal purpose (QC data management), with charting & reporting tools. The main goal is to move from Office automation (VBA) to standalone / more customized applications.The side goal is just have fun ;)