As a commercial license holder with 7 years experience that would make my day. However, we should approach this a bit differently. The question should not be will Nokia's first wp7 phone run qt apps. It should be will we be able to develop wp7 apps using Qt technologies. I am specifically speaking of QML. Qt has been using web style technologies for a while. I use CSS to style my c++ apps for example. QML is basically what amounts to javascript and a json like syntax sitting on top of a c++ runtime. With that in mind, it should not be that difficult for them to allow QtCreator to target, Symbian, MeeGo, traditional apps with QDeclaritiveView, a new Windows 8 runtime and a new WP7 runtime.
It would be huge if Nokia was able to leverage the existing Qt developer base for there new wp7 phones. Personally, I am way more excited about the N9 running MeeGo than any of the future wp7 devices. However that could change based on the developer tools available. A Dev stack that runs on linux, osx and windows that I already know and use (QtCreator, QMake etc) would be huge.
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As a commercial license holder with 7 years experience that would make my day. However, we should approach this a bit differently. The question should not be will Nokia's first wp7 phone run qt apps. It should be will we be able to develop wp7 apps using Qt technologies. I am specifically speaking of QML. Qt has been using web style technologies for a while. I use CSS to style my c++ apps for example. QML is basically what amounts to javascript and a json like syntax sitting on top of a c++ runtime. With that in mind, it should not be that difficult for them to allow QtCreator to target, Symbian, MeeGo, traditional apps with QDeclaritiveView, a new Windows 8 runtime and a new WP7 runtime.
It would be huge if Nokia was able to leverage the existing Qt developer base for there new wp7 phones. Personally, I am way more excited about the N9 running MeeGo than any of the future wp7 devices. However that could change based on the developer tools available. A Dev stack that runs on linux, osx and windows that I already know and use (QtCreator, QMake etc) would be huge.
Creator has a long way to go to be a viable development tool for QML. This stuff is still quite rough.
Granted, the N9 finally has a processor with enough horsepower to handle the Declarative runtime, so maybe there's hope.