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I'm very nervous about using Qt since they announced they more or less want to get rid of the free edition due to less than expected income.

And their commercial offerings are very pricey indeed ($6000 a year).

I'd recommend users to switch to wxWidgets.

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It's not 6k a year, there's a cheaper plan now: https://www.qt.io/en-us/qt-for-small-business

Yeah, $499 per year is reasonable. It's similar to Adobe Creative Cloud all-apps plan pricing.

The main criteria to qualify for that is that your turnover is less than $250,000 per year.

Didn't Qt also have a similar deal for start-ups a few years ago but that was later discontinued citing of lack of interest?

They can't do that.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23322197&goto=item%3Fi...

huh, I didn't realize that. Glad there was foresight to think of this stuff early on in the licensing.

Or https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

- Decades of active development - Proven concepts (same paradigm as .Net, VB and Delphi) - Supports a lot of OS/CPU.

Edit: To get started easily with tasks like cross-compiling, getting the trunk edition, and so on, use (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe) to perform the download and installation.

But it's Pascal. :)

Now if there were something like Lazarus, but for Rust, the HN crowds would go nuts.

Pascal/Delphi code is soooooo clean to read and code in! And it's quite modern: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html

One wonders why there isn't something like it, but that you can use with any language instead of just Pascal or BASIC or QML+Cpp or whatever the crap Qt uses these days.

First they need to make the borrow checker more amendable to something like SwiftUI and UI component libraries.

The cognitive overhead of something like rust in non-systems programming is pretty much understated in HN discussions.

Being a very long time Delphi and FreePascal user with tens of thousands of lines of code in active use today, I never understood why pascal wasn't running way out front of Go, Rust, Java and all these other performant languages. It's so straight forward and such a pleasure to work with.

Because Turbo Pascal/Delphi was the ideal Pascal dialect (after Apple's Object Pascal) and Borland screwed it up.

If Borland had kept their indies demographic, hadn't made their half-backed attempt to Linux with Kylix, the history would most likely played in a different direction.

Good luck trying to make a nice looking UI in wx.

Or in Qt for that matter.

Telegram's desktop client uses Qt and all widgets are custom.

Quite easy, unless one saves money on designers.

I use the free wxFormBuilder designer, which works great.

I meant people that work as UI/UX designers.

Average Qt (widgets) apps look much nicer than most modern whitespace-vomit webapp monstrosities

I agree. I just meant that the look of Qt and wx widgets is essentially equivalent (and not a big deal after all).

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