We have the same here:
Our indian team is OK for pissing some simple code, but when it comes to more advanced design they're lost.
OK, it is not rigth for all of them, but only 5% are really skilled and you have to pay them.
Most of the guys I work with there haven't ever heard of design patterns or MVC. We ship linux versions of our software, and most of them are lost when using another OS than Windows, when they design something one day, if two days later they need something similar, they copy-paste instead of writing a generic design, etc...
The french law simply says that people own their picture.
This means that in France a company has to ask people the right to use their photograph before publishing it. Google could photograph all streets in France in HiRes, but they have to ask the people that are recognizable on the photo the right to publish their photo. If Google blurs their face, there is no problem.
If you are making a Film in France you also have to ask the people that apear in the Film the right to use their image.
It is done to avoid having your picture used for things you disagree.
The only drawbacks on Qt I see in the comments here is that the lib is too fat or that C++ is dead.
But let's concentrate on What Qt provides:
A API that covers the purpose of glib + gobject + gio + atk + pango + cairo + gtk + gstreamer + gecko + libxml2 + goocanvas + internationalization + portability accross Unices, Mac and Windows
This is splitted in several modules Core, Xml, Network, Gui, Phonon, Webkit
And the main point is that you have all that in the same API with the same object design. If you never coded in Qt, try it before saying it sucks, you will see how straitforward everything is.
Signals/Slots in really a fantastic feature and massively used in Qt
Java /.NET descided like Trolltech that C++ was too complicated. Sun created the java language, MS the C#, Trolltech just decided to limit themselves to a subset of C++ and add some extensions via macros (and a precompiler which generates the boilerplates) but globally the aproach is similar.
I use Qt every day and I really don't think I could be as productive with WxWidgets or GTK.
Maybe GTK / Vala will be the future real competitor to Qt.
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We have the same here: Our indian team is OK for pissing some simple code, but when it comes to more advanced design they're lost. OK, it is not rigth for all of them, but only 5% are really skilled and you have to pay them. Most of the guys I work with there haven't ever heard of design patterns or MVC. We ship linux versions of our software, and most of them are lost when using another OS than Windows, when they design something one day, if two days later they need something similar, they copy-paste instead of writing a generic design, etc...
The french law simply says that people own their picture.
This means that in France a company has to ask people the right to use their photograph before publishing it. Google could photograph all streets in France in HiRes, but they have to ask the people that are recognizable on the photo the right to publish their photo. If Google blurs their face, there is no problem.
If you are making a Film in France you also have to ask the people that apear in the Film the right to use their image.
It is done to avoid having your picture used for things you disagree.
The only drawbacks on Qt I see in the comments here is that the lib is too fat or that C++ is dead. But let's concentrate on What Qt provides:
.NET descided like Trolltech that C++ was too complicated. Sun created the java language, MS the C#, Trolltech just decided to limit themselves to a subset of C++ and add some extensions via macros (and a precompiler which generates the boilerplates) but globally the aproach is similar.
A API that covers the purpose of glib + gobject + gio + atk + pango + cairo + gtk + gstreamer + gecko + libxml2 + goocanvas + internationalization + portability accross Unices, Mac and Windows This is splitted in several modules Core, Xml, Network, Gui, Phonon, Webkit And the main point is that you have all that in the same API with the same object design. If you never coded in Qt, try it before saying it sucks, you will see how straitforward everything is.
Signals/Slots in really a fantastic feature and massively used in Qt
Java /
I use Qt every day and I really don't think I could be as productive with WxWidgets or GTK. Maybe GTK / Vala will be the future real competitor to Qt.