Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:02 UTC
The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.
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The main selling point of BeOS was its reactivity, which if I understood correctly was/is thanks to the 'pervasive' thread usage.
Would applications coded on top of Qt4 be as responsive as application using native BeOS/Haiku guidelines?
I doubt it very much, otherwise KDE would be as reactive as BeOS was, which it isn't (far from it).
So sure having Qt applications available on Haiku is nicer than not have them, but let's hope that Haiku won't need too many of those otherwise there wouldn't be much point running Haiku over running KDE/Linux..