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by keyle 2976 days ago
"Because you can doesn't mean you should." -common sense.

But then again, since 2017, anything that can happen will.

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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?

See, this is what I get for procrastinating.

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.

EDIT3: got it to cross compile and load off a server. And....ugh. It's got a long way to go. It works, at least. Still too large for a mobile device however.