Qt-UI

Competitors

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Multi-Platform Competitors:

  • wxWidgets
    • OSS
    • not as clean
    • not as well documented
    • not nearly as bug-free
  • GTK+
    • OSS
    • base of the Gnome Linux Desktop
    • no support for windows

Single-Platform Competitors:

  • Cocoa (MacOS X)
    • Objective C is odd
    • Clean and powerful functionality (AppleScript XCode AppleGL)
    • Direct access to MacOS X functionality (iTunes streaming etc.)
    • Only on Mac and very special
    • Almost no standards
    • some free and open development tools like XCode

Windows Competitors

  • mfc
    • outdated
  • wpf
    • deprecated
  • .net
    • C#
      • interpreted code
      • attributes via getters/setters
      • garbage collection
      • managed/unmanaged code interface problems
    • vast number of convenience classes
    • direct access to Microsoft products like DirectX Excel Word etc.
    • extremely proprietray
    • source not available
    • no standards
    • alternative: Mono


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