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

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

Me being the Debian maintaner for Wt, +1

(I think I was the first one to ever mention Wt in this list and in Planet
KDE/Qt :-) )


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  +1
>
>  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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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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