Qt has evolved fantastically since Digia's acquisition. Just throughout the 5.0 series it has gained incredible feature support for almost anything from full multimedia faculties to websockets to a revitalized 3d rendering engine. And QML is such a breakout success in UI design and just general applications programming compared to the competition - if you have not, you must try coming up with a simple program idea and then try implementing it in QML. Compared to any other tech - GTK, HTML, even Android's ADT the mechanism behind QML is incredibly elegant.
I dream of seeing a day in ten years or so where everyone expects right once run everywhere native look and feel applications out of Qt, a toolkit that provides you mechanism to access the full power of your target devices without having to lock yourself into whatever vendors SDK is and thus forcing you to rewrite the same program 5 times for 5 different target devices.
Its not there yet - just the other week I was arguing with someone on reddit about the usability of Qt on mobile and conceded it lacks a prebaked gesture support library to easily just do a two finger swipe rather than having to use the multitoucharea type to specify how two finger motion works - but it is getting so very close.
I dream of seeing a day in ten years or so where everyone expects right once run everywhere native look and feel applications out of Qt, a toolkit that provides you mechanism to access the full power of your target devices without having to lock yourself into whatever vendors SDK is and thus forcing you to rewrite the same program 5 times for 5 different target devices.
Its not there yet - just the other week I was arguing with someone on reddit about the usability of Qt on mobile and conceded it lacks a prebaked gesture support library to easily just do a two finger swipe rather than having to use the multitoucharea type to specify how two finger motion works - but it is getting so very close.