The Qt 4 Resource Center 45
e8johan writes "The Qt 4 Resource Center features articles regarding the next generation of Qt. Being the basis for the next generation of KDE and being available under GPL for all major platforms Qt 4 will make it even easier to develop powerful cross-platform applications."
Let the free market work. (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, if YOU can't afford it, then try some of the other open source alternatives. There is always wxWindows, FOX, FLTK, GTK+, the multiple GTK+ C++ wrappers, and so on.
Re:Price (Score:2, Insightful)
As someone else mentioned, your only other real choice for non-opensource cross-platform developement is Java and wxWindows.
Time will tell if the price is too high, but most developers who have used QT will tell you that its pretty head and shoulders above any other cross-platform library.
Re:Qt4 and extra compile phase? (Score:3, Insightful)
While that approach may be a bit more complex for the library maintainers, it certainly would make life easier for the developers, at least in my opinion.
Re:Price (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe its that expensive because its really that good!
Anyhow, there are lots of low cost development tools for developing the standard internal corporate software. People that buy Qt are making commercial apps. If $3000 is going to break you, then perhaps you need to reconsider your business strategy.
Re:Let the free market work. (Score:1, Insightful)
But you're not comparing like for like there.
The buy-in price for Windows (presumably we're talking about a site license for Visual Studio Enterprise here) may well be cheaper than Qt. But it only gets you Windows development.
The buy-in price for OS X (= the price of the Macs to do your development on, presumably, since XCode is free) may well be cheaper than Qt. But it only gets you OS X development.
Qt may be more expensive. But it gets your application onto all three platforms with no extra effort.
Consider a hypothetical developer wanting to write a commercial application that runs in KDE. In this hypothetical future, Linux + KDE has taken off beyond our belief and now commands a 25% marketshare; Apple have trebled theirs, too, and now have 15% of the market; and Windows controls the remaining 58% of the market (apart from the 2% "other" that the Gnome fans will insist I put in here).
Your hypothetical developer has three choices: