[Interest] Direction of Qt [Was: Re: QML Runtime]

Bob Hood bhood2 at comcast.net
Sat Feb 2 02:38:09 CET 2013


On 2/1/2013 5:40 PM, Alan Alpert wrote:
> There is no "dominant side". C++ and QML are both viable options for
> writing your UI with Qt (actually, right now QML is not a viable
> option for the average desktop UI but it's getting close). It's not
> even two entirely separate worlds, QML depends on C++ development and
> is primarily focused on the case where they work together.
>
> [...]
>
> Maybe there's some confusion about the separate worlds of Widgets
> (with its C++ only API) and QtQuick (with its QML only API). In that
> case, they're also targeting separate use-cases so there's little need
> for convergence. Widgets will continue to work for the classic
> desktop-based applications, and QtQuick still has a lot of work to be
> just as good for mobile as widgets already are for desktop.

Thanks, Alan.  Those are bullet points I can probably leverage.  :)




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