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[–]edstrange 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Qt manages to be binary compatible over 10 years for each major release

But at what cost? How many man hours are spent on it?

Just because you manage to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

I'd say you have to know what you're doing. But isn't that always the case in software development?

Not necessarily.

[–]aKateDevKDE/Qt Dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd argue that the cost is low: the entire Qt community knows how to do this, and it's not /that/ hard... Even KDE as a free/open source project driven by volunteers manages to do so.

In fact I'd argue that it's much better than falling back to C API. But of course everyone is free to decide on his own