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Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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JonoW wrote: post #3
tomh- wrote: post #2

So, what will happen? 1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA or 2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

I thought neither iOS or Android use C++?

C++ is one of the languages blessed by Apple in addition to C, Objective-C, and Javascript.

Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Post by tomh- »

JonoW wrote: post #3
tomh- wrote: post #2

So, what will happen? 1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA or 2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

I thought neither iOS or Android use C++?

Android now offers the possibility to create entire apps in C++ using the NDK. On iOS you can also use C++.

Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Post by dawgr »

0x44 wrote: post #4
JonoW wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought neither iOS or Android use C++?

C++ is one of the languages blessed by Apple in addition to C, Objective-C, and Javascript.

If they were going to switch to iOS, can't they just switch to Objective-C too even if they used to work with C++ before?

Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Post by pietrofmaggi »

tomh- wrote: post #2

So, what will happen? 1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA or 2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

3) Qt c++ devs will learn Java or Obj-C and targets [iOS|Android], where there're already lot's of customers.

Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Post by blub »

tomh- wrote: post #2

So, what will happen? 1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA or 2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

As a Qt dev, neither option is appealing to me right now. Maybe when things calm down...

By the way, the consensus in the Qt community is that this is bad news both for Qt and for the entire community.

Re: Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

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Post by justincormack »

tomh- wrote: post #2

So, what will happen? 1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA or 2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

I cant imagine anyone switching to Silverlight now, its already dying, as MS have admitted, they only cant kill it before they release HTML5 for WP7 later this year.
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