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by ozcanay 1022 days ago
Cool. Did anyone try targeting Qt applications for WebAssembly? I wonder how convenient it is to use.
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There's an interesting write up here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/qt-wasm-nicholas-petreley-1c

Personally, I didn't find the author's sample app to load very quickly- I think it was 10 seconds or so just to get something on the screen- and it was useless on my phone.

That same app would easily perform better and have better device support were it written in js/html/css.

I just don't see a place for things like QT or native gui stuff in real world WASM. Number crunching or fast data processing, sure, or maybe a game, but a standard UI is crap if the whole thing is in a big canvas.