[Development] Repository request: qt/qtbridge-java

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 8 December 2025 09:34:49 Pacific Standard Time Cristián Maureira-
Fredes via Development wrote:
> Hey Thiago!
> 
> What I meant with the description
> was that we are trying for the module to be as close to Java,
> without imposing C++ or Qt code patterns.
> 
> By "bridge language style" in this case, we meant "Java coding style".

So you're not bridging to Java, you're bridging to Java developers, by making 
the coding easier for them to get comfortable with.

Python I would understand, since it's a completely different syntax, what with 
whitespaces being meaningful and the absence of the increment operators. But 
Java uses the same syntax as C and C++. So how can we get anything closer to 
Java that isn't Java itself?

> Since the description is the same for the other languages,
> an example could be to use decorators, pragmas,
> properties, observables, when possible, to replace
> some of the Qt functionality that due to its C++ nature
> might look strange for 'the bridge language' users.

"Bridge language" is the language with which you implement the bridge itself. 
Given that these are qt/* projects, those should be C++. Did you mean the 
language on the other side of the bridge, that is, the "bridged language"?

> If with my explanation, the meaning was better understood
> and you have a suggestion in the description, please let me know :)

I don't understand at all.

Are users going to write actual Java, Python, or Swift or Rust? When I read 
"application logic to Qt Quick application", I think of the C++ backend of 
that application, which would imply that's what you're replacing. I don't see 
how you can do that without going all the way: there's no hybrid of C++ and 
Python syntax. You're either C++ (where "++" is the increment operator) or 
you're Python (where "++" are just two pluses together not separated by 
whitespace).

Or are we talking about the language that goes inside of .qml files, replacing 
JavaScript? How faithful is this meant to be for the actual language? How much 
of the standard libraries of those languages is this going to offer, because 
people wouldn't use the JS one?

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5150 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20251208/23bcb94e/attachment.bin>