> -----Original Message----- > > Anyway, that [zero-install] is definitely a legitimate issue. However > >I have to puke and kick a puppy when it comes to overall web development. > > We were approaching something really good with Java and .NET, but > >these got sidelined by a handful of easy-to-implement standards that > >now requires you to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: > >HTML, JS, CSS, MIME, SQL, .NET or Java or PHP, not to mention > >Linux/IIS server administration. > >[...] > > Wt on the other hand, is C++ and takes care of all of that for you. > >You can provide a CSS, but you don't have to. It doesn't matter if > >tomorrow the web ditches HTML for XML or pure javascript, or ditches > >MIME headers for JSON ones. The toolkit will take care of it for you. > >Don't recode, just recompile. And let the toolkit take care of browser > sniffing. > > Everything made hard by traditional web development is made obsolete by > Wt. > > > > And yes, I would love it if Qt and Wt merged. > > I did try Wt and do find it awesome for server-side development. But the > thing when being server-side is that you can always come up with your own > solutions. After all, you can run native code on the server. > If Wt didn't exist, you could always write your own abstraction layer for your > C++ code. They key is, you *can* run your C++ code. > > When being client-side there's no such freedom. Your C++ codebase is > completely useless as you can't run it on the client. Which is why Emscripten > is such an amazing technology. I expect it to get faster with time, especially > as JS itself evolves, eliminating more bottlenecks. And do not forget that > Emscripten is not "just" a C++ to JS compiler. It's an LLVM bitcode to JS > compiler. So it can potentially allow deployment of code written in any > language.
Going WAY off topic, but: If they can convert LLVM to Javascript, why can't they convert to a JVM bytecode for Android, etc? Sounds like a great project! Regards, Tony _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest