Recent developments and future outlook of Qt
summary
Estimate of nearly 5 million downloads this year and a planned Qt 5.12 LTS release with a WebAssembly preview that compiles C++ apps to run in browsers (multimedia and webengine excluded) headline the specifics. Official Qt for Python integration ships in 5.12, Qt Creator makes clang the default code model and adds multi‑app debugging, and >5,000 bugs are fixed since 5.6 (~2,000 since 5.9). Tooling updates include Qt 3D Studio 2.x and Qt Design Studio; microcontroller builds run on Cortex‑M7 in ~3–10 MB RAM. Plans target Qt 6 in ~2 years with C++17 baseline and CMake for the Qt build.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 6:45Qt for WebAssembly
- 16:52Qt Creator
- 17:40Visual Studio integration
- 22:12Networking
- 26:35Qt Location
- 28:01Qt Virtual Keyboard
- 30:09Qt Safe renderer
- 36:57Containers
- 41:29String handling
- 42:59Other ideas
- 44:58Cross platform graphics
- 46:28Unified architecture for 2D and 3D
