Ever wondered what language or library is used for Google Earth, Skype, Sony Mylo, Photoshop Album, KDE, VLC Media Player and of course my companies own Papyrus EYE? It is NOT .NET, JAVA nor Adobe Flex, OpenLaszlo, JavaFX, AJAX, or Silverlight.
Read on, if you want to find out..
It`s Qt [ pronounced cute] formally Trolltech now Noka. Qt is a cross-platform application framework. Using Qt, you can develop applications and user interfaces once, and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
I am just giving you some URL´s to check out yourself to begin with a blog of one who you may not expect to blog on something old as C++ instead, it`s Mike Gualtieri from Forrester Research. In his latest blog “Spotlight: C++ is still cool” he writes about his experience at the QT Software Developer Days Conference.
The second blog is from our Chief Architect Max J. Pucher who mentioned a time ago QT .
So dust of your C++ skills and have a refreshing look at Qt.