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dragly
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dragly is a personal blog at dragly.org about programming and science. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Experimental Qt and QML in the browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link dragly's post on experimental Qt and QML running in the browser via Emscripten. The linked commenter describes the demo as large and slow, and suggests Qt may suit bigger web apps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Experimental Qt and QML in the browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-27
What Hacker News says?
Here is a demo of a QML sandbox in the browser using Qt+Emscripten if you are interested[1]. And the blog post in which I wrote about it[2]. It's quite big and not very well performing, but Qt might be useful for larger web apps one day. [1] http://ovilab.net/projects/qt-emscripten/qml-sandbox/ [2] http://dragly.org/2016/04/27/experimental-qt-and-qml-in-the-...
Comment linking /2016/04/27/experimental-qt-and-qml-in-the-browser/
on “Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond”Submitted Experimental Qt and QML in the browser as a story · 58 points
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