Correction .. "I would love to see a teenager in a poor country getting his first computer (probably a smartphone) and being able to build and sell C# applications using just that device to SELL to rich Westerners."
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Bob Summerwill <b...@summerwill.net> wrote: > + Damien and Dimitar. > > Thanks for the links, info and suggestions! > > Yes, Sailfish is just one of N platforms where Qt/QML+Mono will be useful. > The appeal of Sailfish for the initial development is that it lets us hit > a mobile platform where Qt is the standard (and only?) UI technology. > > Qt for Tizen is great, but applications using Qt have been rejected from > the Tizen Store. That will be moot if Tizen mobile devices never make it > to market anyway, but will be problematic as-and-when the platform > succeeds. You can still do Qt on Intel NUC and other > non-Samsung-controlled Tizen devices, but it's still a problem. No such > problem on Sailfish. > > I would love to bring Qt/QML+Mono to all platforms. > > Contributions, collaboration and assistance would be gratefully welcomed. > Mono for Sailfish is not a commercial enterprise. It's a labor of > love, because I want to use C# on these emerging mobile Linux platforms > (including wearable and IoT). I don't believe that OSes or low-level > technologies like programming languages should be proprietary. It just > stifles innovation and is an unfair barrier to entry for programmers in the > developing markets. It is just yet another "moat" for the status quo. > > I would love to see a teenager in a poor country getting his first > computer (probably a smartphone) and being able to build and sell C# > applications using just that device to see to rich Westerners. > > The next 2 billion smartphone customers? Boring. Think about the next > million mobile DEVELOPERS, all incentivized and enabled to rip apart the > complacent corporate status quo with disruptive and revolutionary > applications. Bring it on. I think that's the most interesting > opportunity for mobile Linux. That, and the possibility of crowd-funded > "indie" mobile and wearable hardware. > > > Cheers, > Bob > > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Tomasz Sterna <to...@xiaoka.com> wrote: > >> Dnia 2014-08-22, pią o godzinie 12:12 +0300, Ville M. Vainio pisze: >> > Better path than QtSharp would be just creating a QML bridge to Mono, >> > i.e. instantiate a QML runtime and make Mono talk with it. >> >> This is how Go-QML [1] does it. >> You don't need the whole Qt wrapped, just the QML engine - the rest >> should be native app interfacing to QML in place of Qt/C++ app. >> >> [1] https://github.com/go-qml/qml >> >> -- >> smoku @ http://abadcafe.pl/ @ http://xiaoka.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> > > > > -- > b...@summerwill.net > > -- b...@summerwill.net
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