[bhouston]

I think that is a fantasy of qt and c++ developers unfortunately. There will be very few use cases for qt in a browser loaded from the web. Optimized computation kernels yes. Full qt guis I do not see it happening.

Qt should create an html/Dom/css front end that binds to the webassembly backend. Would be more efficient and web friendly.

[bitL]

Make Electron-like desktop apps but with Qt or within a browser with navigation/menu etc. bars? Running both over Internet and locally at native speed? Avoiding JavaScript for Web UI? I'd be happy to have that!

[bhouston]

Qt for desktop node sounds like a great idea. Because then it is native and fast. But qt in this case would not be webassembly but rather bindings to JavaScript.

[krapp]

It's a fantasy of mine because I'm afraid that without a way to port and run native code from the web there will be no way to preserve software long term as part of our cultural legacy. Software has to be able to run or else it will be ignored and discarded, preserving source code alone isn't enough. Only things that remain a part of current cultural interest get preserved.

[roywiggins]

This is not what Wt was built for, but there's a similarity...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wt_%28web_toolkit%29

[baq]

There's a whole class of developers who won't touch js and html with a ten foot pole. Suddenly they can deploy software to the browser. What's not to like?