[haiku-development] Re: R1/a4 initial planning

Alex Wilson wrote:



I have to say that I quite like this idea. I haven't looked too much
into Qt, but they have some really neat technologies that we could
benefit from. I think that with this approach we could stay true to
the vision of Haiku as a unified platform, while decreasing the
development burden, letting us focus on developing the features that
make Haiku unique and awesome! Qt isn't the only path, but as I see
it, it's one that could greatly accelerate Haiku's development, while
benefiting end users and developers alike, which is certainly a
worthwhile goal.

--Alex
QT market share is growing, its always good to be a on a upward trajectory, had be been able to leverage a growing cross platform API that offered ease of portability, we might be singing the song about MS that we sing about BE today.
Whatever could happen, I think destagnating the process at the point and getting dev's excited and interested again, is a step in the right direction. Plus theres already been some good forward progress on a QT port, so some work has been done.
The only other appealing framework would be mono, but its not perfect, and its really only focused on C# afaik, but there is lots of C# code out there in the wilds of the world. 

Sean

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