On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark wrote: > > It's primary goal is just gone (Tizen is HTML 5, not QML). > > I don't know where the impression comes from that MeeGo, or any particular > platform in fact, would have been the primary goal of QML. Sure, it was nice > to see that Qt and QML was for a while a core piece in what might have > become a successful mobile platform. But fact is that people have been > building many devices with Linux, Qt and increasingly Qt Quick for years, > without waiting for MeeGo. > > Qt, QtQuick and QML are for developers, and the primary goal is and will be > to make it easier for developers to create awesome product. The worst thing > we as developers can do is to wait for some "Technical Steering Group" a'la > Tizen and LiMo to create a platform that is relevant for us, and even solves > (some of) our problems for us. Build products with technologies that exist > today to solve the problems that you have today. And from that perspective, > Qt and Linux have been beating any HTML5-based technology for years. > > Volker > > That impression comes from the fact that the Qt folks repeatedly promoted QML as "the" thing to use for mobile development. And it "could" be used for the desktop but that wasn't the aim of it. Or that's the impression Qt folks gave me. Another thing is the compilation step. It's non existent in pure QML apps and that was promoted for mobile use as well since now there was no need to compile in slow environments. All things the Qt folks said created a mindset for me (and probably a lot of others as well) that QML was for Mobile usage and desktop usage was just not much of a topic. Just look at the blogs in Qt labs that mention QML for the desktop. There are some but the vast majority is, yet again, aimed at mobile stuff. So that's where my impression came from and that's why i'm asking about the future of QML since for me (in my mindset) all the promotion of QML along with Mobile usage is just not a case anymore. Please don't take this wrong. It's certainly not meant to be.
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