From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:46:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811051646.46181.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b5157c30811050039s659575ack8b6e9a9026e67835@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 08:39:32 Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> > In contrast, you can implement a GUI toolkit in OCaml that far exceeds
> > the relevant limitations of Qt4 with quite easily.
>
> Jon, did you ever used Qt in a big C++ or Python project? Qt is the
> best GUI framework out there, GTK is a ridiculous toy in comparison,
> and it took ages to reach this level of "completeness". Frankly, I
> think you are heavily undervaluing the task of building a *decent* GUI
> from scratch.
I've implemented GUIs in C++ using Qt, and in OCaml using Smoke, and in F#
using WPF. Qt is by far the most limited in terms of functionality and is
filled with incidental complexity to boot. Finally, Qt isn't even safe so Qt
GUI apps are prone to crashing to the extent that even Trolltech's own tiny
demo programs crash.
I agree that GTK is worse but my point is simply that Qt leaves a lot to be
desired, primarily because it is entirely founded upon old-school programming
practice that is long since outdated.
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 13:19 Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 13:37 ` [Caml-list] " Mark Shinwell
2008-10-20 14:05 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2008-10-20 15:45 ` Robert Morelli
2008-10-20 15:56 ` David Teller
2008-10-20 17:15 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2008-10-20 20:51 ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-10-21 13:04 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
2008-10-20 20:15 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-20 20:32 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 23:02 ` Robert Morelli
2008-10-21 2:22 ` Peng Zang
2008-10-21 16:57 ` Christian Stork
2008-10-21 12:16 ` tags (Was: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?) Florian Hars
2008-10-20 20:16 ` [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you? Kuba Ober
2008-10-20 14:33 ` Andres Varon
2008-10-20 19:54 ` Peng Zang
2008-10-20 14:47 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-20 20:14 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-21 13:14 ` Dmitry Bely
2008-10-21 13:50 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-21 18:35 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-21 19:31 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-10-21 20:26 ` Philippe Strauss
2008-10-22 12:42 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-22 21:56 ` David Teller
2008-10-22 22:39 ` David Teller
2008-10-23 7:47 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-23 8:27 ` Romain Bardou
2008-10-23 10:13 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2008-10-23 11:01 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-10-23 14:13 ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-10-23 14:43 ` Romain Bardou
2008-10-23 15:22 ` Dave Benjamin
2008-10-25 10:14 ` DooMeeR
2008-10-25 12:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-10-25 12:43 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-25 13:22 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-25 23:08 ` Indentation (was Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?) Martin Jambon
2008-10-26 16:23 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-26 19:41 ` Martin Jambon
2008-10-23 17:20 ` [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you? Kuba Ober
2008-10-23 17:17 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-23 0:22 ` Peng Zang
[not found] ` <200810221330.11103.ober.14@osu.edu>
[not found] ` <D3D47C54-888B-4F14-9C5D-79FF3D9F96D6@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 17:13 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-01 1:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-03 14:15 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-03 23:11 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-04 18:35 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-04 23:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-04 23:06 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 5:48 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 8:53 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-05 15:01 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 15:05 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:56 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 14:58 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 15:20 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:39 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 15:55 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:08 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 17:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-15 13:02 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-15 12:25 ` Richard Jones
2008-11-15 20:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-16 12:04 ` Florent Monnier
2008-11-05 8:39 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-05 15:44 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-05 16:41 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 16:46 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-11-05 16:33 ` Jérémie Dimino
2008-11-05 16:43 ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-05 17:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-23 13:53 Baudet David
2008-10-24 7:17 ` Maxence Guesdon
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