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Anybody using this in production? I just transitioned one of my teams from Qt to wxWidgets for cross platform GUI development. I would be interested to hear what people think of U++ for desktop native GUIs.

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What's wxWidgets like these days? I used it a lot 10ish years ago and found that while it worked great for simple things, once you tried to create anything even slightly complex it was both buggy and undocumented.

sounds like a step backward to be honest

https://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$vswx$en-us.html

Out of curiosity, why did you make the switch? Licensing?

> Licensing

Pretty much. Some of the paid Qt module look interesting, but the clarity of wxWidgets license made is easier for us to deal with our legal department when releasing new products.

If you like using Qt but you also want a more modernize C++ version of it, you can try https://github.com/copperspice/copperspice/ and I'm pretty sure its license have you covered.

The folks behind that framework also have an amazing Youtube channel [0] where they talk about complicated C++ topics in great clarity (well, as great as one can expect for such a complicated language). They don't post often, but when they do, it's almost always a gem.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@CopperSpice

Has it had an impact on your productivity? Are developers shipping faster, same pace as before or slower? Would be super interesting to know if legal has increased productivity through bureaucracy, or how much a decrease in say 20% is costing the company - which is something that probably could be a fast track back to Qt.

Sorry if I'm coming off as a salesman here!

What about the LGPL isn't clear enough to abandon the entire framework?

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