Qt vs Visual Studio for scientific computing [closed]

Question

I am embedded programmer, and have no experience with desktop programming. In my project have to display and calculate no of physical parameter like pH, temp.

Please suggest me which way to go: Qt or Visual Studio?

Which is best suited for scientific computing?

I'm asking this because I am going to give lot of my time to learning these tools.

Last think, Any open source lib or tool like NI Measurement Stdio in QT or VS..

Answer 1

Qt Creator and Visual Studio are both IDEs.

MFC and Qt Libraries both have GUI libraries for C++.

C++ and C# are both programming languages that you can compare and decide on.

Qt Libraries can be used in Visual Studio, using the Qt VS Add-in...

So assuming you want to stick with C++ and you have heard good things about Qt, here are some resources to look into:

Here are some of the resources you should explore for scientific computing in C++. This is not an exhaustive list, but it should get you going.

• http://partow.net/programming/exprtk/ ExprTK (easy math expression library)
• http://www.vtk.org/ Visualization Toolkit
• http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/22988 Scientific Plotting in Qt
• http://qwt.sourceforge.net/ QWT (Qt Plotting Library)
• http://qt-project.org/downloads#qt-other (Qt Add-In for Visual Studio)

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

you should make your hands dirty by trying one of those you prefer.

In my opinion I prefer Qt for C++ programming. And Visual Studio just for C# applications.

one more thing Qt is available in Windows, Linux and Mac. But VS is just for Microsoft OSs.