TStsdgeos·Aug 6, 2014
You can try using go-qml https://github.com/go-qml/qml
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QML support for the Go language
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QML support for the Go language
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I recommend checking out go-qml. https://github.com/niemeyer/qml It is a different approach to using Qt GUI programming in Go where you use qml to define your UIs and keep the…
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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7 sourcesgo-qml: QML support for the Go language
1 points · Open discussionFYI, for those who want to write cross-platform GUI apps but prefer to avoid C++ (even the mildly nicer Qt flavor...), there are alpha-quality go bindings for QML.
https://github.com/go-qml/qml
In How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?You've been saying that it's just about your own use cases, but your statements in that post are much more general. For example:
> What does Go have that Python lacks? Performance, static typing.
That's a very simplistic view. Being a long term Python developer that switched to Go as the preferred language years ago, here are some of the things I appreciate on the other side of that fence:
- Performance, indeed.
- Static typing, yes.
- A simpler language specification (a big one for me, game changer for large code bases in large teams)
- Interfaces based on structural typing ("static duck typing", as some say)
- Much better control of memory layout (struct with 2 int64s takes 128 bits in memory, a list of those takes N*128bits)
- Built-in micro-threads (goroutines)
- A runtime that schedules (means, you can block, despite concurrency)
- B
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uffered and unbuffered channels managed by the runtime (with select, etc)
- Builds native static executables, fast (maybe you don't care, many people do)
- A much better organized standard library
- A very good http server _and_ client package in the standard library
- Good crypto packages and APIs in the standard library
- Error handling without exceptions (that's a pro for me and many, feel free to disagree)
- A very elegant system to define access control (private/public) on vars/funcs/types/fields/consts/etc.
- All names inside files that are part of a package ("directory") are part of the same namespace (allows better organizing code than with Python's file-is-a-module style)
- Code files that can see declarations out of order (improves code organization)
- gofmt! godoc! Love those.
- None of the Python 2 => 3 migration mess (people are being told to program in a pseudo-language that is neither Python 2 nor 3 in recent times)
And so on... That's not to judge your use of Python, though. By all means stick with Python if it suits your needs.
As a last point, if you're interested in Qt bindings, I've been working on this:
https://github.com/go-qml/qml
Some applications coming out of it:
http://blog.labix.org/2014/04/25/qml-contest-results
Check this out: https://github.com/go-qml/qml
It's written by the same guy who made the awesome MongoDB driver for Go, so I have high hopes!
In Native GUI library for GoQt has shaped up to be such an attractive, pleasant-to-use framework. QML has turned out quite convenient, too. It's a pity that Qt's foundation remains a fundamentally memory-unsafe language like C++.
I'm using a lot of languages now that offer significantly more safety, both memory and type (including OCaml, Golang, and playing with Rust).
Even with the very welcome additions of C++11/14, it still seems like I'm stepping back into a previous era when I write C++. I use C occasionally, but when I do I know I'm manipulating memory directly, and if I'm not careful it can bite me. C++ has adopted so many modern language features that it's easy to forget it shares many of the same attributes as C, even if most of them are now avoidable with care and attention.
One nice response to this dilemma is Niemeyer's go-qml (sponsored by Ubuntu, i
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f I'm not mistaken). go-qml allows you to create your main Qt program in Go, leaving QML for the layout only. So no C++ at all (except under the covers, of course). I look forward to seeing how go-qml evolves [1].
1. https://github.com/go-qml/qml
Go and QML for desktop apps: https://github.com/go-qml/qml
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