Qt 5 Beta has been released
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Qt 5 Beta has been released
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Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#2Qt5 is taking the project in some interesting directions regarding the UI aspects. I think it'll be a good thing overall but it's certainly proving a bit contenious amongst people who're comfortable with QWidget and don't like the idea of JavaScript being a first class citizen. As long as it's as fast I'm happy.
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#3I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and complex applications.
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#4I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
Google native client is a promising tech for web to reach desktop performance. I developed a complex vector application (htp://www.torapp.info) and reached better performance than desktop equivalents.
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#5I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
Google native client is a promising tech for web to reach desktop performance. I developed a complex vector application (htp://www.torapp.info) and reached better performance than desktop equivalents.
I find it hard to believe, because even that it runs native code, there is a small penalty of a sandbox environment and it certainly cannot be faster than pure native code.
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#6I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
Google native client is a promising tech for web to reach desktop performance. I developed a complex vector application (htp://www.torapp.info) and reached better performance than desktop equivalents.
And of course there is a Qt for native client project: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#7I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
Google native client is a promising tech for web to reach desktop performance. I developed a complex vector application (htp://www.torapp.info) and reached better performance than desktop equivalents.
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Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#8I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
I was fond of Qt when I used it, but no one I talk to -- a small sample size to be sure -- speaks highly of c++. I have a feeling that Qt will eventually go by the wayside as web browsers replace what it means to be "cross-platform compatible."
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Google native client is a promising tech for web to reach desktop performance. I developed a complex vector application (htp://www.torapp.info) and reached better performance than desktop equivalents.
I find it hard to believe, because even that it runs native code, there is a small penalty of a sandbox environment and it certainly cannot be faster than pure native code.
Just because desktop always wins in theory doesn't mean that you can't exceed the performance of existing native clients. I'm sure Illustrator leaves a ton of performance on the table simply by virtue of having a large legacy codebase. For instance, if it becomes practical to assume that all of your clients support GPGPU then Illustrator's existing CPU optimized code instantly goes from being a critical advantage to a heavy burden: they have to maintain that code and write new GPU code that somehow fits with the old code whereas you just have to write the GPGPU code. Witness pixelmator curb-stomping Photoshop in the performance department. Of course, that example is Desktop App vs Desktop App but the principle is the same.
Re: Qt 5 Beta has been released
#10I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice. Back in time it provided the solution for fragmented Desktop development. With Digia's involvement now it can solve the same problem but in mobile space. But even if this does not happen, there is still the whole field of desktop development which is not going away any time soon. Web is simply not capable enough to create truly big and compl…
> I am hoping Qt will regain its status of a cross-platform toolkit of choice.
Despite their recent focus on mobile, I wasn't under the impression that they had lost this status with respect to desktop development. Which toolkit do you think supplanted them...?