[Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

[Konstantin Tokarev]

13.04.2017, 12:32, "Nikita Krupenko" <krnekit at gmail.com>:
> 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 popularity, and seems to embody everything that is great about
>>  Qt (simplicity, elegance, strong concern for readability, etc), and it has
>>  many features of Qt built directly into the language (reflection, i.e.,
>>  moc, goroutines and channels for signal / slot functionality). One of its
>>  main limitations is lack of a dominant, fully-featured GUI toolkit. There
>>  are existing bindings to Qt and QML, but it seems like creating a brand new
>>  native GUI framework in the Qt mold could be a great opportunity to make a
>>  huge impact on a language that has a bright future. All the lessons
>>  learned as Qt has evolved over the years could be consolidated into a fresh
>>  new design, based fundamentally on a 2D & 3D scenegraph, using OpenGL ( /
>>  Vulkan, etc) as the underlying renderer, or something like that… Obviously
>>  a huge undertaking, but something that could produce transformative effects
>>  for future programmers (whereas it seems that continued improvements to the
>>  C++ product are likely to be much more incremental). Maybe some funding
>>  from Google could be obtained to support such an endeavor?
>>
>>  - Randy
>
> Why Go? Isn't Rust more close to the C++ niche?

Rust does not have even GCC frontend, so is even less portable than C++

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Konstantin