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If, however, your goal is to deliver a desktop application that runs on Windows, MacOS X and other Unixes...VS is worst than useless.

Not at all true. Setting up VS to work with Qt isn't too hard. And once you've got it set up it's a perfectly fine tool for writing cross platform Qt apps. Then to build and test you just do some clever stuff with virtual machines and you are good to go.



Point taken. It's possible to coerce VS into being a cross-platform IDE, therefore it's not "worse than useless" in this case.




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