[Interest] Roland Qml

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 14/07/20 13:35, Roland Hughes ha scritto:
>>> 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. 

Are you calling the person who has maintained QtCore for the last 10+ 
years, who has worked directly first under Trolltech and then Nokia, who 
has been the release manager for a number of Qt releases (just before 
4.7, which publicly introduced Qt Declarative) a liar?

> 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.

"Notorious" is hearsay and unwarranted.

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