[Development] Why waste energy supporting Python?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

25.04.2018, 04:42, "d3fault" <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com>:
> Supporting Python first class dilutes Qt, please don't. What's next,
> Qt for Java? It's one thing to collect community-developed bindings
> for various other languages into a single place... but something else
> entirely to pay an entire "team" of developers to work on what is
> essentially duplicated effort. That money could instead be spent on
> new Qt features and/or fixing the ever growing list of bugs
> (supporting Python first class will only add to that list of bugs).
> Also, will Python/Qt libs be easily usable from Qt/C++? I doubt it, at
> least not without deploying a python interpreter (and we already have
> to deploy a JavaScript interpreter if we want to use QtQuick).
>
> Modern C++ has come leaps and bounds over recent years in improving
> code simplicity and safety (clang-tidy QtCreator integration FTW)...
> whereas afaik Python still crashes if you don't have your WHITESPACE
> perfectly organized.... bleh. Simply put, encouraging the use of
> Python is the same thing as discouraging the use of Modern, Simple,
> and Safe C++.

1. C++ is not modern, not safe, and by far not simple language
(despite having a lot of strengths in different areas)

2. A lot of people complain that Qt has very weak support for bindings to
languages other than C++, unlike e.g. GTK+

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Regards,
Konstantin