[Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web

[Bob Hood]

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On 1/17/2013 1:50 PM, Jason H wrote:
> What is the "web" you speak of? LOL
>
> Anyway, that [zero-install] is definitely a legitimate issue. However I have
> to puke and kick a puppy when it comes to overall web development. We were
> approaching something really good with Java and .NET, but these got
> sidelined by a handful of easy-to-implement standards that now requires you
> to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: HTML, JS, CSS, MIME,
> SQL, .NET or Java or PHP, not to mention Linux/IIS server administration.
>
> The reason I puke is the number of standards you have to be famialr with.
> The reason I kick the puppy is this cannot be the best paradigm software
> development can have. It is an organic evolution of indepenendt technologies
> that don't come together to make a race horse, they make some kind of
> creature that has an arm, and leg, a hoof, a claw, and am mouth and exit
> hole. It's very much like a Swiss army knife - does everything but damn
> dangerous when you use all the things at once.
>
> Wt on the other hand, is C++ and takes care of all of that for you. You can
> provide a CSS, but you don't have to. It doesn't matter if tomorrow the web
> ditches HTML for XML or pure javascript, or ditches MIME headers for JSON
> ones. The toolkit will take care of it for you. Don't recode, just
> recompile. And let the toolkit take care of browser sniffing. Everything
> made hard by traditional web development is made obsolete by Wt.
>
> And yes, I would love it if Qt and Wt merged.

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