Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread Jonathan Purol
On 14/07/2020 13:24, Roland Hughes wrote: > They have no formal education with respect to computer science. So you're implying that CS education has anything to do with the ability to write good code? Some of the best programmers I know, far beyond the capabilities of me, perhaps you, and a vast m

Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:35:28 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > 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

Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest
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 QtCor

Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 7/14/20 1:24 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: On 7/14/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: (snip) When I was at a client site just over a year ago they were using an off-shore team that tried to do 100% of the project in QML and JavaScript because you can find those people for absolu

Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread 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 bas

Re: [Interest] Roland Qml

2020-07-14 Thread Roland Hughes
On 7/14/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: Let us not forget that QML+JavaScript is completely insecure in the OpenSource world. All of that JavaScript gets stuffed into the binary you ship as free text. Anyone with a decent text editor can read/extract your super secret propriet

[Interest] Reminder: Qt Code of Conduct

2020-07-14 Thread Andy Shaw
Hi, This mail is being posted to all of the mailing lists individually, but not cross-posted because that is an invite to create havoc so for those on multiple mailing lists then I apologise for the fact you will get this more than once. The Qt Code of Conduct was created and agreed upon back i