Friday, July 10, 2015

Qt for Google Native Client

I just found this project by chance, "Qt for Google Native Client" and it seems a very clever idea, opening a lot of possibilities for applications developed with Qt framework. It'll add a new platform for Qt, so confirming once more the "code once, run everywhere" motto.

For those not yet familliar with Google Native Client (a.k.a NaCl) it is a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely, independent of the user’s operating system.

So having Qt ported to this environment in theory allows us to run a Qt application in a browser (more specifically Google Chrome) and suddenly we can target all the Chromebook portable machines in addition to the current long list of already available platforms targeted by Qt.

I'm about to test it and provide feedback about my experience, but in the meantime you can watch this example.

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