Thread: witter - a python twitter client
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2010-02-09 , 08:42
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#210
Originally Posted by dwould View Post
I am thinking I might try to learn QT now to write something completely different, and if I get the hang of it, and it seems in any way faster (I've not found anything that categorically states that is or will be the case) then I would consider converting.
The benefit of QT is not performance. The benefit is its one-for-all-library concept which enables the developer to create platform independent programs. Basically if you stick with QT functionality without depending on further libs this is true. In that case you can easily provide your app for Maemo, Symbian, WindowsCE, etc. after rebuilding it. Even for the desktop. In theory, some issues will still remain.

For witter that would mean that you had to migrate all non-standard Python functionality to QT, like filesystem access, GUI, XML, etc.