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copied!<p><strong>Edit: This answer was written in <em>2008</em>. It probably is no longer so apt, though probably it is not entirely useless. Take with salt.</strong></p> <p>I have used both and have ended up going the Qt route. These are the reasons:</p> <ul> <li>Trolltech offer quick and one-to-one support via email</li> <li>Qt innovates, and introduces powerful new features regularly</li> <li>The Qt documentation is amazing, and in the rare cases where it isn't, you can read the source code</li> <li>Having the source code for Qt also allows you to debug inside your base libraries, which has been a life saver for me on many an occasion</li> <li>The API is very consistent and well designed. We have put new people on the project and within a month they show deep knowledge of the toolkit and can learn new classes very quickly</li> <li>It has bindings to other languages, eg. Ruby and Python.</li> </ul> <p>C++ is somewhat of a downside, eg. compile times, packaging, and a less integrated IDE. However Qt does make C++ feel more like a higher level language. QStrings take all the pain out of string handling for example. Thus the additional issues with C++ that you would normally face, eg. more buggy code, are less prevalent in my experience when using Qt.</p> <p>Also, there are more libraries for Delphi than for Qt, but this is mitigated due to the fact you can just use a c or c++ library in a Qt project, and also because Qt is so fully featured you often don't have to look any further.</p> <p>It would be a strange situation where I would choose Delphi over Qt for a new project.</p>

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