Qt 6 - What's cooking? - and other cool new stuff!

[@VoidRealms]

Hello - big fan of Qt, but I do feel if it needs some attention in regards to connecting with other services (google, facebook, things like that) along with adding things very much lacking file compression (tar, zip, gz.zip), encryption (aes, and so on), and all those things that we typically have to reach out to a 3rd party lib.

[@fjallmann]

Among other things, maybe better python coupling can help too. Ps: nice seeing you here voidrealms!

[@VoidRealms]

@@fjallmann small world :)

[@RatijasT]

Speaking of 3rd party lib, where is the missing package manager?

[@w01dnick]

Well, there are some 3rd party but Qt-based libs, like KDE Frameworks (e.g., KArchive), QCA, so you don't need to glue them to Qt yourself.

[@christianm4906]

It would be awesome to see support for firebase.

[@AshiqurRahman]

why 480p in 2020

[@christianm4906]

It would be awesome to see support for firebase.

[@susjjmegxj]

Please show more love to mobile. It is very painful to see that people are choosing raw products such as kotlin multiplatform instead of mature Qt.

[@VoidRealms]

For sure, but I also think a lot of mobile developers won't try c++, to really compete, QML / JavaScript would need bindings into all qt c++ classes

[@zakariachahboun]

i agree 👍

[@prashkd7684]

I'm not sure if ppl will pay for QT license when there's all these OS options. Also, it seems the future of mobile dev is moving more towards web technologies which isn't QT's forte.

[@鄭小白-n4p]

That’s true, so I have given up and chose Flutter haha.

[@malekkhlif244]

What about Android Automotive ? And AOSP automotive ?

[@RolfSchlup]

Qt needs to do a better marketing job. I'd love to do some mobile app work with Qt, but when looking for work it is either Qt is too expensive, or we can't find C++ developers or they never heard of Qt. I've used Qt since version 2 and I would love to work on a project utilizing it, but it has been very difficult. Everywhere you look it is mostly React.JS, Cordova, and Capacitor for cross platform development.

[@QtStudios]

Hi Rolf, any suggestions on what we need to do better? :) Any ideas of how we can get our community to advocate for us?

[@RolfSchlup]

@@QtStudios I guess the main problem is the licensing. As soon as you want to create a commercial app for example, you need a commercial license - or do you? It has been very confusing. For all other platforms such as flutter, React.JS, etc. It is easy since it is free. Being turned away by C++ should not be an excuse. Also, better explanations on how Android, iOS SDKs integrate into a Qt mobile project would be helpful and maybe video that showcases it.

[@QtStudios]

@@RolfSchlup Have you checked out this Rolf? www.qt.io/qt-for-small-business

[@RolfSchlup]

@@QtStudios I'm a freelancer working for companies that need apps that go with the products they sell. All those apps end up being free to download. What kind of license would that be? Is that covered under the small business license as well?

[@VFPn96kQT]

@@RolfSchlup And what's the point for a company to give everything for free? It's easier to just close it and save time and money on development. They don't have other revenue sources like Facebook, Google etc do.

[@maheshkariya]

And what about web ? Please do something about web assembly. I looking forward to mobile and web support from qt with modern responsive design as well..

[@HermanWillems]

We need a Qt variant for Rust. Rust does web perfectly. It has the best ecosystem for Webassembly. Unlike C and C++. (It's possible, but eco system is not there)

[@СергейЦабий-ы1л]

Хорошо. Буду изучать)

[@HermanWillems]

Embedded is moving more and more to Rust. For obvious reasons. What will Qt do about that? Will you give Rust Tier 1 support? Or do we need to look for other frameworks? Or new rising frameworks based on Rust? Problem with Qt is it's based on C++ and therefore hard to use in lower level languages like C. What will be the case for Rust?

[@anneallison6402]

Why is it moving to Rust? This is the second time i hear that

[@_ClericalError_]

@@anneallison6402 It isn't. Rust has an evangelization corps that goes around spreading the Good News(tm) all over the internet about stuff like this, but it is more bark than bite. There are uses for Rust in embedded work, but the majority of embedded development is still done in plain-old-C with a little assembly. Rust has a lot of maturing to do yet, it doesn't even have a stable ABI or any third-party implementations. It may become a big player one day, but today is not that day.

[@facundofierro]

What about WebAssembly? Why wasn't mentioned as supported platform?

[@AdamSowinski]

Can you use QT for free in commercial projects?

[@alessiodf]

yes, with the (L)GPL version you can as long as you don't patch anything from the original QT baseline. If you do, your changes will be open sources too, but your software that only links the qt binaries can be closed source and commercial

[@prashkd7684]

@@alessiodf unfortunately its not that simple. there are APIs which fall under different licenses.

[@scopchanov]

@@prashkd7684 He explicitly stated: with the (L)GPL version

[@zakariachahboun]

Please focus more on mobile development! ❤️

[@kevinvan4197]

Whats cooking for the open source users? :)

[@MauriceKalinowski]

Everything that Lars mentions is going to be available in both editions, open source as well as for commercial customers.

[@chouaibalihaimoud8305]

what about moc/templates problems , are you planing to use verdigris or you are waiting for C++ meta-classes, if thinks if you resolve this problem or at least adopt verdigris library as choice supported by Qt, many of the architectural problems will find their ways to be solved

[@w01dnick]

Why is this necessary? You could use verdigris right now if your project needs template QObjects. It's just a template header, no heavy dependencies.

[@chouaibalihaimoud8305]

@@w01dnick I am using it for my projects, but this awesome library should be used by Qt company to facilitate architecture improvement

[@w01dnick]

@@chouaibalihaimoud8305 The problem is it can't replace current implementation as it has incompatible syntax. And shipping two different ways for meta objects is confusing and excessive. Moving to moc-ng though is better approach as it keeps compatibility with existing code, has no repetitions and allows template class for QObject.

[@batdude2196]

Has anyone compared QT to Disti?

[@FrancoAmato]

Where to download Disti libraries?

[@stetig1]

Why the resolution is so small?

[@zorglub76]

So that video can fit the ram on mainstream STM32 chips

[@nasonibrahim]

take my money already lol

[@bsatyam]

TIL Qt is pronounced as 'cute'

[@mendaxassange4465]

Really...? 480P?