[Interest] Swift and Qt? (formally?)

[Jason H]

> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 7:39 AM
> From: "Till Oliver Knoll" <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com>
> To: "Qt Project" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Swift and Qt? (formally?)
>
> Am 19.09.16 um 18:52 schrieb Robert Iakobashvili:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> >> There is a 9-month old github; https://github.com/msorvig/qt-and-swift for integrating the two.
> >>
> >> Are there any plans for formal Qt support of Swift? Obj-C is painful.
> > 
> > +2
> 
> As far as I know there is no "Swift++" compiler available, that is a
> compiler which can compile "Swift + C++", right? In analogy to ObjC++.
> 
> So unless that's the case the common denominator between "Qt" and
> "Swift" is C. Of course one could "wrap" the Qt objects - somehow - into
> C structures and make them "look" like objects (and vice versa). But
> that would be a clumsy approach.
> 
> So unless we do have C++ support in Swift my guess is that Qt can do
> little here.
> 

Well it is on the roadmap, but out of scope for 3.0, which was just released. 

I don't think I need full-interop, just enough to let me avoid coding Obj-c, which for me is mainly AppDelegate. But I can see how in the short term it is zero-sum. The app however would mirror how interop is done with Android static classes though. That might be something?