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2010-07-12 , 21:41
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#26
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
The primary downside I see is multiple layers of UI toolkit (VCL -> Qt) and the fact that even the most basic editions cost almost $1000, which is a hard charge when core platform tools are both free and open.
Toolkit overhead should be low, if they actually go on with this.

And yes, it's pretty steep, but if it covers W32, Mac and Linux, it's worth the cash. As a serious coder, it's not a very high price to pay, but I agree it's not exactly accessible.

However, (for Windows only) there's the Explorer version that, for the lowly price of not having IDE plugin enhancements and having to use open components, is free.

Don't think they update it though. So, likely, no cross-compiler.
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