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

2017-04-16 Thread Jason H
o.edu> > To: "Konstantin Tokarev" <annu...@yandex.ru> > Cc: "development@qt-project.org" <development@qt-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Development] As Qt contemplates its future.. > > With the recent language explosion, there are now languages to fit

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

2017-04-16 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Apr 15, 2017, at 19:14, Randall O'Reilly wrote: > 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

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

2017-04-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Randall O'Reilly wrote: > One of the major innovations in Go is that it avoids all of those > problems. You only ever write things once, in one place (no .h vs. .cpp), > and, like an interpreted language, the only distribution mechanism *is the > source itself*. There is no such thing as binary

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

2017-04-15 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
15.04.2017, 01:23, "Shawn Rutledge" : >>  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 is possible

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

2017-04-15 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em sábado, 15 de abril de 2017, às 10:14:45 PDT, Randall O'Reilly escreveu: > > Because there's no such thing as binary distribution in the first place. > > That means you cannot provide a component without the source. If we > > insisted on all Qt users simply recompiling every time that Qt

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..

2017-04-15 Thread Thiago Macieira
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 (no .h vs. .cpp), and, like > an interpreted language, the only distribution mechanism *is

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

2017-04-15 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Samstag, 15. April 2017 00:23:01 CEST Shawn Rutledge wrote: [...] > The Rust guys make the point that it’s necessary to rewrite lots of old > stuff in Rust in order to have all the security that it can guarantee. No, that's a common myth. I've heard people say: "There is no point in

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

2017-04-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em quinta-feira, 13 de abril de 2017, às 07:44:09 PDT, Alejandro Exojo escreveu: > On Thursday 13 April 2017 21:02:59 Randall O'Reilly wrote: > > This also means that there is an endless potential for language wars, > > which > > I’m sure nobody wants to rehash on this list. > > Are you sure?

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

2017-04-13 Thread Alejandro Exojo
On Thursday 13 April 2017 21:02:59 Randall O'Reilly wrote: > This also means that there is an endless potential for language wars, which > I’m sure nobody wants to rehash on this list. Are you sure? Because in the next sentences seem like you exactly started to fight for one side. You said that

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

2017-04-13 Thread Randall O'Reilly
With the recent language explosion, there are now languages to fit everyone’s biases and aesthetics. This also means that there is an endless potential for language wars, which I’m sure nobody wants to rehash on this list. My point is just that Go represents a particular set of choices that I

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

2017-04-13 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
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: >>>   In the context of all this recent discussion about modernizing Qt to >>>   accommodate updates to

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

2017-04-13 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
13.04.2017, 12:32, "Nikita Krupenko" : > On четверг, 13 апреля 2017 г. 08:24:39 EEST Randall O'Reilly wrote: >>  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

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

2017-04-13 Thread Nikita Krupenko
On четверг, 13 апреля 2017 г. 08:24:39 EEST Randall O'Reilly wrote: > 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

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

2017-04-13 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
13.04.2017, 08:25, "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

[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