[Development] What kind of airplane we want to build?

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Thu Jan 21 11:17:24 CET 2016


On Thursday 21 January 2016 09:14:58 André Somers wrote:
> Op 21/01/2016 om 10:02 schreef Marc Mutz:
> > I'm not saying we don't need new API should we replace QThread with
> > std::thead. I'm saying that all the hard, impressive, work is already
> > done. It seems to be mostly a question of API now.
> 
> Sorry, but I think API design _is_ the hard work. Not the part that
> is/should be the afterthought. And I think that that very thought has
> been the basis of the succes of Qt over the years.

I disagree. For anything related to multithreading (and that's what we're 
talking about here), implementation is orders of magnitude harder than API.

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