Re: [Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

2017-04-15 Thread Randall O'Reilly
On Apr 16, 2017, at 1:28 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Em sexta-feira, 14 de abril de 2017, às 22:38:25 PDT, Randall O'Reilly > escreveu: >> One of the major innovations in Go is that it avoids all of those problems. >> You only ever write things once, in one place (

Re: [Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

2017-04-14 Thread Randall O'Reilly
On Apr 15, 2017, at 7:23 AM, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > >> On 13 Apr 2017, at 14:02, Randall O'Reilly >> wrote: >> >> With the recent language explosion, there are now languages to fit >> everyone’s biases and aesthetics. > > This explosion

Re: [Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

2017-04-13 Thread Randall O'Reilly
:) - Randy > On Apr 13, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > > > > 13.04.2017, 13:25, "Konstantin Tokarev" : >> 13.04.2017, 12:32, "Nikita Krupenko" : >>> On четверг, 13 апреля 2017 г. 08:24:39 EEST Randall O'Reilly wrote: &g

[Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

2017-04-12 Thread Randall O'Reilly
In the context of all this recent discussion about modernizing Qt to accommodate updates to C++, has anyone given any thought to the radical idea of creating a brand new product using Go? Go (golang) is rapidly gaining in popularity, and seems to embody everything that is great about Qt (simpli

Re: [Development] Revisiting high-DPI configuration options

2016-07-26 Thread Randall O'Reilly
I migrated to Qt from InterViews: http://www.ivtools.org/ivtools/doc/refman3.1/index.html which used floating-point units that could be arbitrarily rescaled, but default to points, like many other standards (e.g., SVG, Postscript). I always found it strange that Qt used integer pixel coords.

Re: [Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

2016-01-19 Thread Randall O'Reilly
I’m confused about how it would even be possible to contemplate abandoning the implicit sharing paradigm given how deeply embedded it is within *all* of Qt, going well beyond the container classes: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/implicit-sharing.html Seems like Qt has adopted a core design principle he

Re: [Development] RFC: more liberal 'auto' rules?

2015-12-03 Thread Randall O'Reilly
This debate between the std:: lib and wider C++ community vs. the Qt traditions seems never-ending :) At the risk of perpetuating the inevitable flame war, my perspective is well captured in this article: http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/12/01/why-c-is-not-back/ C++ is WAY too complex of a la

Re: [Development] Qt3D questions and wishes

2015-08-10 Thread Randall O'Reilly
Harald — I filed a few bug tickets with example code for some of these issues, as noted below. - Randy > On Aug 9, 2015, at 11:35 PM, Harald Vistnes wrote: > > Hi, > > I have played with the tech preview of Qt3D 2.0 and I have some questions and > wishes. > > 1. Transparency. It does not se

Re: [Development] HEADS UP: Don't use QList, use Q_DECLARE_TYPEINFO

2015-07-10 Thread Randall O'Reilly
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that, because of the private data nature of most Qt classes, they are a) already allocating the private data object on the heap all the time and incurring all that overhead and memory allocation badness, and b) are essentially a pointer to an object already — t