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"Because you can doesn't mean you should." -common sense. But then again, since 2017, anything that can happen will.
On the other hand, if you already do have a Qt application, then you can maybe get a webapp for almost free?
"Because you can doesn't mean you should." -common sense. But then again, since 2017, anything that can happen will.
On the one hand, I find it funny that people are using bloated electron to avoid writing Qt code, and now you can write Qt code even on the web! On the other hand, if you already do have a Qt application, then you can maybe get a webapp for almost free?
I've been asked by a customer to port my recent Qt app to iOS. Got the equipment, was about to get the development environment set up, got XCode installed....and now this.
This is pretty exciting if it all works as expected.
EDIT: aaaaaaand after trying some of the demos at https://github.com/msorvig/qt-webassembly-examples using a brand new iPad (iOS11/A10 Fusion core) using Safari, half the examples run out of memory, and the other half aren't touch enabled. Hmm.
EDIT2: Firefox iOS, same set of crashes.
How long until someone uses this to make an Electron app?
Once we compile Chromium to webassembly, we can run Qt in Chromium in Chromium in Slack!
You jest, but this sort of thing probably is the death of almost all native software, sadly.
Oh boy, sometimes you just walk away from a crash, but you're never the same.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once we compile Chromium to webassembly, we can run Qt in Chromium in Chromium in Slack!
See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... You jest, but this sort of thing probably is the death of almost all native software, sadly.
It’s 2018 and we still don’t have a common, wide spread, OSS framework for self-updating native apps that runs on all the major desktop operating systems. And let’s not even go into app store territory...
This reminds me of a time, when I used to work for a very large company. After an unfortunate amount of meetings and powerpoint presentations about ubiquity and compatibility, we ended up putting a Flash VM inside a Java client, to read HTML. Oh boy, sometimes you just walk away from a crash, but you're never the same.