[Interest] Roland Qml

[Roland Hughes]

On 7/14/20 5:00 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> When QML was first pitched back in the Nokia days, it was supposed to be
>> a script that ran through a pre-compiler generating the C++ widget code.
> No, it wasn't.

Yes it was. I got that exact pitch. It was supposed to replace the 
problem prone XML based UI files and buggy designer of the day. At that 
time the designer was notorious for corrupting UI files forcing one to 
open them with a different editor to fix. Having a plain text "language" 
that was easy to code and would pre-compile to widget code was a great 
selling point.

That's what the Nokia developers were talking about in the Chicago area. 
They were going to get rid of XML, giving us something that looks much 
like QML, having no logic capabilities, just screen layout, that would 
be 100% compiled.

What we got was an interpreted language massive security risk.

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