Qt's New Bridging Technology – Looking Back to Move Forward (opens in new tab)

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9 pointsYakBizzarro10mo ago2 comments

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I actually wrote Rust bindings for Qt a while back: https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs/. I'm curious to see how Qt's own take with Qt Bridges will work out. That said, I’ve since moved on and now work on Slint [https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]

Slint was created with the same idea as what drives "Qt Bridges". We made a UI toolkit that is language-agnostic from the start. Slint uses its own UI language (inspired by QML), and gives you first-class, idiomatic APIs in Rust, C++, Pyhton, and JavaScript. And a clean separation between UI and business logic.

lazypenguin10mo ago

I’ve played with Slint and it’s nice but depending on how this plays out it might be a concern. QML is of course much more mature than Slint. It would be interesting to read an in depth blog post by Slint about why fundamentally Slint is better than QML since one of the main advantages (multi-language) is potentially being nullified here.

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