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Qt 5 Alpha Released

After nine months of effort, Nokia's Qt Lab has announced the availability of the alpha release of Qt 5. Goals achieved for this release include a new platform abstraction layer, a re-architected graphics stack, and the inclusion of Qt Quick as a first-class citizen (hitting version 2.0, and using Google's V8 Javascript engine to boot). Quoting Lars Knoll: "'Qt 5 should be the foundation for a new way of developing applications. While offering all of the power of native Qt using C++, the focus should shift to a model, where C++ is mainly used to implement modular backend functionality for Qt Quick.' I can say that we came a good way closer to this vision with Qt 5.0. The model is working nicely on the embedded side of Qt where UIs are full screen. On the desktop, we have laid most of the foundations required for this model, but it’ll take us until 5.1 or 5.2 to really take this into use." Nokia has posted the the source and detailed release notes on the Qt wiki.

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  1. Re:One or two Questions... by 3seas · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The story topic is QT not slashdot and it is QT that is masking and thats not very "open", thought autoit is freely available.

    Maybe you should have said QT is a broken record as there have been other stories of it too.

    Quite honestly I was very interested in QT on both Linux and Windows....until I discovered this. Is Open half way?