[Interest] QML async/await support?

[Ben Lau]

On 4 February 2017 at 00:42, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:

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> > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 at 3:40 PM
> > From: "Samuel Gaist" <samuel.gaist at edeltech.ch>
> > To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> > Cc: "interestqt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] QML async/await support?
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> > > On 2 Feb 2017, at 18:02, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
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> > > When will QML get proper async/await support? I'm not using Promises,
> since my callback hell is manageable, but I do look forward to async/await.
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> > Hi,
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> > Looking for something like https://github.com/benlau/quickpromise ?
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> Thanks but promises are a fad, created because of a lack of async/await.
> Their replacement is async/await. As of July '16, they were committed to
> ECMAscript 2017. At the January '17 meeting the final ECMAscript 2017
> featureset was announced whose major features are async/await and shared
> mem & atomics.
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> The JS community has been using async/await via babel for some time.
> Python is also moving to async/await, with 3.5 introducing and 3.6
> completing support for async/await.
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> Given that the future is here, that's why I was asking. I think (I'm very
> not sure) that V4 would have to be modified for async/await. Given the
> relative enthusiasm for async/await I was wondering if it was scheduled for
> V4.
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Upgrade the Javascript engine would take a lot of time. Instead, I think it
should just use babel to compile JavaScript code that compatible with v4.
That will be much easier.

There has a project called , quickly , is aimed for this purpose. But
unfortunately the development is suspended for long time.

https://github.com/quickly/quickly
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