Re:CXX-Qt: Safe Rust bindings for Qt
by bluGill on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:59AM
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Legacy code. I've been doing QT for 10 years, I only heard of rust about 3 years ago, but the hype (particularly memory safety) has got me very interested. If I can take some existing C++ that is due for major surgery for other reasons and write it in rust I'm interested.
We know from experience that rewriting our entire system from scratch will take 5 years and cost $150million: I won't even attempt to convince management of that. Our current C++ should be good for 25 years as just C++. if we maintain it well (the major surgery mentioned above) it can last indefinitely. However replacing the current QT GUI is not on the table, it already has our themes. Maybe someday in the future it will be on the table if there is better one and it can work well (look at feel) with out current QT GUI, but for today we don't complain about QT.
We know from experience that rewriting our entire system from scratch will take 5 years and cost $150million: I won't even attempt to convince management of that. Our current C++ should be good for 25 years as just C++. if we maintain it well (the major surgery mentioned above) it can last indefinitely. However replacing the current QT GUI is not on the table, it already has our themes. Maybe someday in the future it will be on the table if there is better one and it can work well (look at feel) with out current QT GUI, but for today we don't complain about QT.