[Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I don't have customers.  Why does everybody assume that *everything* out 
there is developed on a commercial basis?  Have you people never used a 
piece of software that is development by someone on their spare time and 
provided for free?


On 17/01/13 17:03, Jason H wrote:
> This is where you set up a server and charge for the service. Or fins a
> sponsor. Or advertise.
> If you aren't popular, AWS has a free tier now too.
> I use hub.org which has VPSs and some affordable plans. They also
> donante to PostgreSQL. They even donated a VM for a free/OSS project I
> have. (Though I also have some commercial accounts with them)
>
> At that point your customer just has to sign up for your service and
> drop in the HTML you provide them. Just like Google Analytics
>
>
>
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> *From:* Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com>
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:48 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web
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> On 17/01/13 16:43, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > 17.01.2013, 18:40, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc at gmail.com
> <mailto:realnc at gmail.com>>:
>  >> On 17/01/13 16:31, Jason H wrote:
>  >>
>  >>>  You all are doing it wrong!!!
>  >>
>  >> <grin>
>  >>
>  >>>  If you want to make Qt5 web-able, what you need is a way to directly
>  >>>  translate the OpenGL calls of Qt5's QML to WebGL.
>  >>
>  >> I'm not even using OpenGL.  There's nothing to translate.  There's about
>  >> 3000 lines of code that are GUI-specific, 5000 lines that are
>  >> Qt-specific, and 150000 lines that are pure ISO C++ code.
>  >>
>  >> The real problem is the 150000 lines of C++ code running on the web.
>  >> QML is irrelevant for this.
>  >
>  > Run your 150000 lines of C++ code on server, and write thin web
> client for it.
>
> Too much latency.  Also, people don't have servers.  They want to put
> this on their homepage.  Imagine what would happen if people (= average
> Joe) were required to setup and run servers just to put an audio clip on
> their page, for example.
>
> Translating to JS is *perfect* for this.  Some applications just don't
> belong on the server.
>
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