Question

As well-known, C++ has steeper learning curve than most of the mainstream languages, which results in better performance . But, does using C++ over other languages[like Java,Ruby,Python] for Qt development have still (major) advantages,let's say about Qtopia? If any, what are they?

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Solution

Qt is natively a C++ API, so any other languages have to have wrapper code around it which needs to be maintained, etc. The primary documentation will also be for the C++ API.

I'm not sure if there are any "official" bindings to other languages which are maintained and released together with Qt.

OTHER TIPS

If you are looking at Qtopia, you are probably looking into embedded systems. In that case, C++ will likely be the one you want to choose, specifically for those performance reasons.

Otherwise, Trolltech maintains a Java binding, and I imagine that some of the other language bindings aren't too bad either, since those languages can interact directly with c/c++ code. However, those bindings are likely to always be a little out of date.

it's easier to create a single executable.

don't know if that will be for long...

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