Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- From: Thanh Ly <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:04:53 -0400
Forgive me if I'm not doing this right, I'm not use to using mailing
lists. I'm still reading through all your messages regarding my article.
First I just want to express my frustration of being a Switcher. I'm
getting a lot of flak from long time Mac users because of my PC
background. More specifically to the topic at hand, Cocoa vs. Qt, it's
just a matter of taste. My target audience for that article is Linux
developers more so than Mac developers. Put yourselves in my shoes,
you've been working with Cocoa for however long that you have, now what
if you were faced with a situation where you had to learn Windows
programming, or Linux programming. This is just hypothetical so bare
with me. You'd still feel a sense of attachment to your old style of
programming would you not? It doesn't matter if the new dev environment
is better or easier to learn, it's all about style and comfort.
I will agree that Cocoa is fun and easy to use for development. But my
personal preference is still C++. In spite of the hurdles I'm going up
against - lack of an IDE (although I am now able to use Project Builder
to build Qt apps), distribution issues (Qt as a shared lib is 6.5 MB,
static linking will make my app bloated) - using Qt still makes more
sense for _me_ and I can work faster with it.
I hear a lot of people saying that Cocoa is much better, etc. It's all
subjective. Well, no one can deny that it's better in the sense that
it's native to OSX. Same goes for UI look and feel issues. People have
different opinions on that. I rather like the way Qt apps behave and
they seem to have brought that behavior with them to OSX. A consistent
UI look/feel for cross platform apps is essential. A business man would
say "what ever gets the job done faster is better." A programmer would
say "what ever makes efficient programs is better." I am first and
foremost a programmer. I like to code and I like to have the option to
choose how I want to code. Upon reading more messages from this list's
archive, I see some people who don't seem to understand that just
because something works great for you, it doesn't mean it will be great
for everyone. Simply put, Qt is just another option available to
developers and I happen to like it and it works great for me. But like I
said, just because I like it doesn't mean you have to.
Regards,
-Thanh Ly
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