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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by pjmlp on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:32AM (#12862186)
Qt developers are nowadays pushing for JavaScript instead.

Qt5 programming model is that C++ Widgets are legacy and you are supposed to do the UI in QML, a JavaScript dialect, while coding in C++ the business logic or the hardware interaction of new widgets you might create.

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by winter_blue on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:06AM (#12870518)
> Qt developers are nowadays pushing for JavaScript instead.

Uh. I've used JavaScript in a production environment, and I really really don't like it. It feels like a massive step backwards to me, when there's so many good languages out there. I wish developers would stop pushing for JavaScript everywhere.

Having to use it in the browser is horrible enough. Please don't write servers and other back-end code as well in it now. I personally wouldn't even use it for web front-end--- I would rather use a language like Elm, that cleanly compiles to JavaScript.

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