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by Palomides 243 days ago
I'm not sure there's much overlap in use cases, considering the two very separate classes of 'embedded'; Qt is used on Linux capable devices and IAR is MCUs

why would Qt want to customize a compiler when they still need to support llvm/gcc/msvc?
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ndiddy 243 days ago
There's a class of high-spec microcontrollers that have a ton of RAM and flash and built-in support for stuff like touchscreens. It looks like Qt is able to run on these: https://www.qt.io/platform/develop-software-microcontrollers... . I'm not sure how much of their business is people targeting bare-metal microcontrollers, but there is at least some overlap.
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HeyLaughingBoy 243 days ago
Maybe better tooling to manage both? My $DAYJOB builds systems where we use Qt as the Linux GUI, with real-time processing outsourced to a microcontroller and the toolkit on that side is usually IAR. It's a pretty common configuration across industry, TBH.

My first thought is that they can extend Qt's test library to also manage test data across a pipe to the embedded processor.

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