Depends what you call "lower-end embedded". Even on a mildly modern ARM SoC like the Freescale iMX series, QML works very well, and the OpenGL acceleration make

Depends what you call "lower-end embedded". Even on a mildly modern ARM SoC like the Freescale iMX series, QML works very well, and the OpenGL acceleration makes for an incredibly smooth UI. Also, the backend is still C++, and any computationally intensive tasks should be done there.