Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question

Re:Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question by dmitriid on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:19AM (#16418669)

I used to call Qt ".Net for people who can't have anything better".

When you code in Qt you rarely, if ever, are exposed to the hairy parts of C/C++. If anything, it feels like coding in C#. Nesides UI there are a gazillion helper and utility classes for everything from networking to threading to string handling. And with QML there's even less C++ :)

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Re:Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question by majewsky on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:49AM (#16419049)

I actually just migrated a small Rust application to C++ with Qt because I have to use DBus and Qt has a very nice DBus library, which Rust has not. (In general, DBus hates runtime environments that don't have an event loop.)

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Re:Qt or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question by ahartmetz on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:37AM (#16420568)

It's pretty hard to have asynchronous calls without an event loop ;)

Using DBus synchronously is, strictly speaking, wrong unless you can PROVE that there can be no deadlocks; talking to the DBus daemon itself synchronously is generally safe though. Unfortunately QtDBus encourages synchronous calls. Maybe you remember desktop hangs in early KDE 4 related to global shortcuts - that was me not knowing that rule at the time.

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