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Qt 5.0 Released
sfcrazy writes "The Qt project and Digia, the company behind Qt framework, have released the most awaited C++ framework for developers, Qt 5.0. The company claims it's one of the best releases to date and has invested a significant amount of time behind this release. It's an overhaul of the Qt 4.x series and makes Qt fit for the future."
Update: 12/19 17:46 GMT by U L : Major new features include an overhauled graphics layer, full integration of Qt Quick for creating flexible interfaces using Javascript, and increased modularization including the first steps toward de-emphasizing QtWidgets by separating them into their own module.
... hence thousands of non-programmers continue to talk about how superior it is to GTK+
Having done a small amount of Qt programming, it's also one of the most pleasant APIs I've worked with, both in its C++ form and in PyQt.
If you didn't already know what Qt was, then you're probably not going to be particularly interested that version 5.0 is out.
This really is the best cross-platform Apps framework out there. Far better than HTML5/Javascript.
Yes and no. The signals and slots mechanism is still there and it's still using moc, but there's a new connection syntax available that's a lot more C++ like, allows C++11 lambdas in place of slots, and offers compile-time checking of connections that previously would just fail at run time. Won't please the purists, but it's a step in the right direction.
Remember RFC 873!
Even worse, I don't know what "C++" or "project mean"!
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
On the business software side, there's also well known applications like Autodesk Maya (2011 and above, they switched TO qt recently!), and also the Perforce client (P4V). I'm seeing more and more of it in the internals of "big" apps like that, even if the user is unaware. I have a feeling its partly because of the LGPL side of things opening up more than anything. Although I'm pretty sure autodesk licensed it commercially.
How is Qt still relevant?
Let's see...
It's the only multi-platform development kit that is really as feature complete as most platforms.
It runs on more devices than you'd ever imagine - from small embedded devices to your kitchen appliances to mobile devices to desktops and servers.
It's what KDE is built on.
It's what MeeGo/Mer/Tizen/Sailfish are built on.
It's what Blackberry 10 (BB10) is built on.
AutoDesk is built on it.
CiscoVPN is built on it (well, a really old version at least).
There's plenty more out there; but I'm going to stop there.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)