QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on Friday November 25, 2011 @10:30PM from the expectation-ratcheting-continues dept.

New submitter sirjohn writes with the good news that "A small group of ICS and Nokia engineers have started working on a minimal bootstrap to bring fully functional Qt 5" to the Raspberry Pi, writing "Do you want to create the next big thing on embedded devices and have $35 to invest? You can now have a complete development environment with accelerated graphics for basically nothing. I think it's a big deal ..." Plus, Nokia is funding 400 of the boards and looking for ideas (and developers) to use them. The competition is stiff; there are already quite a few impressive ideas listed.

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and this is news... why? by khipu · 2011-11-26 01:06 · Score: 1, Troll

I don't get why this is news. Is Qt5 so unportable that it requires 400 developers to port it to a new machine? Is Qt5/X11 so slow and inefficient that you can't use it on a 128MB RAM machine that's faster and bigger than high end desktop PCs of a few years ago that used to run Qt just fine, and therefore needs a separate "embedded" version? What's the news here?