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canonic
- Notes on WebAssembly
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Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more
I just founded a company where we're building a cross-platform native desktop app. Perhaps given we're on HN we can scope this to ask why aren't any _startups_ building native desktop apps?
It's something I wonder about as well. We're building real-time performance critical software, so we don't have much of an alternative. Given these constraints, we also ruled out Electron, Avalonia, React Native early on.
We're using Qt Quick which doesn't get nearly the love it should. I was a web developer for 5 years in a past life, and I'm pretty blown away by how pleasant and well-designed Qt Quick's QML language is. One of our team members created Canonic, https://www.canonic.com to explore how the web might look if QML was used as the document markup for the web.
The popular opinion around Qt Quick is that it is best suited for mobile or embedded projects with a dynamic UI, animations, etc. But over the last few years, it has really become a great desktop solution – to the point where Qt put Widgets into maintenance mode and is focusing efforts on Qt Quick across desktop, mobile and embedded targets.
With Qt 6, the GUI is drawn using native graphics acceleration: Metal on macOS, DirectX11 on Windows, Vulkan on Linux. This makes it really easy to bring in a texture you're drawing in some other piece of code outside of Qt. As a result, the QtMultimedia framework in Qt6 is zero-copy on most platforms with the FFmpeg backend. Frames get decoded if a GPU HW decoder is available, then this texture can be read directly by QtQuick and then rendered by the display server without ever being copied. I don't think there's a single other cross platform framework out there that achieves the same level of usability, performance and easy access to platform native APIs.
Here are just a few non-trivial desktop apps that come to mind using Qt Quick:
- Denon Engine DJ - https://enginedj.com/
- Mark Nottingham: Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP
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I heard you like browsers. So I built a browser that runs in your browser via WASM (for QML instead of HTML)
Here's the website if you want to test it out: https://www.canonic.com
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A Response to Rich Harris
No, the end goal is to have an entirely separate browser which browses website built with all instead of html / js / css ; since Qt compiles to WASM it's a simple way to try it but the actual thing exists as a standalone desktop app: https://github.com/canonic/canonic
- Canonic Browser: open-source QML Browser
- Canonic Browser – Open-Source QML Web Browser
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Canonic Browser | Open Source QML Web Browser
GitHub repo: https://github.com/canonic/canonic
mixxx
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Ask HN: Looking for a DJ Program
Mixxx is excellent and has pretty wide hardware support.
FYI the "limited" functionality of Rekordbox can be hardware unlocked with some Pioneer controllers.
https://mixxx.org/
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How to create a playlist of tracks in Ableton Live Lite?
There are quite a few DJs that use Ableton for DJing (or hybrid sets). Of course, Ableton wasn't made with DJing as its main function in mind but you totally can use it for that purpose and (with some tweaking) do everything and more that would be possible in a dedicated DJing software (like Traktor or Rekordbox or Mixxx)
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Free software to try mixing?
I’ve used Mixxx a little bit and have been surprised how capable it is. It’s an open source project and is free to download: https://mixxx.org/
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Djuced vs serato lite
Mixxx (this one's free)
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Cheapest mixing decks (beginner)
Mixxx
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Are there Denon Prime Go mappings for Mixxx virtual dj software?
Related works: https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/4027
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Is getting a DDJ SX as a beginner a good idea? Post includes offers
Mixxx (you already mentioned this; it's certainly a great piece of free software to test the DJ waters with and works with a lot of gear).
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Turntable and controller setup
Alternatively, you can also use Mixxx with the S4 MK2. Mixxx is free. But instead of a Traktor control vinyl record, you'd use Serato timecode instead, as stated in the docs.
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Linux users?
If the device is class-compliant, i.e. it follows the generic USB spec and doesn’t need drivers installed, it can work under Linux. However the free software you get with the controller (Serato, Rekordbox, Traktor etc.) won’t. The alternative is to use Mixxx. It’s free and open source. You can check their controller support. https://mixxx.org/
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HELP Can't decide should I take up DJing as a hobby?
If you don't like any of those, aren't you glad you didn't spend the money to find out the hard way? There's more DJ software than those two, so try out these as well: Traktor Pro 3, Virtual DJ, DJUCED, or Mixxx.
What are some alternatives?
pushpin - A proxy server for adding push to your API, used at the core of Fastly's Fanout service
audacity - Audio Editor
braid-spec - Working area for Braid extensions to HTTP
mixxx-pi-gen - Raspberry Pi image for Mixxx
zotonic_mod_teleview - Mod teleview provides live updating server rendered views.
Now-Playing-Serato
zotonic_mod_doom_fire
moodbar - Audio timeline visualization
KittehPlayer - A video player based on Qt, QML and libmpv with themes for many online video players.
EspTinyUSB - ESP32S2 native USB library. Implemented few common classes, like MIDI, CDC, HID or DFU (update).
unpoly - Progressive enhancement for HTML
lmms-pkg - LMMS Project Packager