[Development] As Qt contemplates its future..

[Konstantin Tokarev]

13.04.2017, 13:25, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> 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++

Ooops, I meant "than Go"

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