> How big a Mac user base is there out there? Not that it's particularily > relevant, since Tcl/Tk under the Mac is pretty heinous. Qt does support MacOS > in the latest preview release, however. > > I'm not currently a Mac user, I just thought I'd point it out. =) One of the long-standing Qt issues for some developers is the licensing issue. If you want to do commercial software development with Qt, ya gotta pay. It's not a lot of money, but it's not free, either. Since a majority of Ruby developers are developing free (as in free beer) applications anyways, this may not be a big issue, but I though I'd bring it up.