C++ Gurus Group - shouldn't we have a forum?
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I do not have the impression that Qt "dumbs down" things. In fact it's a really good API, which makes things easy to do without leading to error-prone code. There's no need to expose much advanced C++ features to a public API. That does not mean, that Qt is not using the bad tricks under the hood :-)
Regarding the beginner's questions, I'm not quite convince that this was the intention of the group, but let's wait what Tobias has to say.
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[quote author="Volker" date="1293399551"]I do not have the impression that Qt "dumbs down" things. In fact it's a really good API, which makes things easy to do without leading to error-prone code. There's no need to expose much advanced C++ features to a public API. That does not mean, that Qt is not using the bad tricks under the hood :-)
Regarding the beginner's questions, I'm not quite convince that this was the intention of the group, but let's wait what Tobias has to say.[/quote]
IMO I think that there should be discussions on other libraries such as Boost and there are tons of discussions that will occur for C++ including C++0x, type casting etc. sharing knowledge is the best thing that happens around here :)
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I believe that it is good to pragmatically and practically program "the Qt way" with C++, knowing that WHEN and IF you (really) need it you can use the "full" power of C++ (e.g.: STL, metaprogramming, etc, etc, etc). ;)
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+1 for this idea.
It's a great idea, 'cause sometimes problems with code don't have to do with Qt library, many times I have problems with some algorithm who was wrote in pure C++ and IMHO this forum would be very helpful :) -
I just requested a forum for us:-)
Happy new year to everybody!
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It's nice to see that we might soon have a separate forum for C++ discussions.
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[quote author="Gerolf" date="1294074334"]Thanks a lot. This will help separating pure C++ issues from Qt related issues :-)[/quote]
I don't think it should JUST about separating. It should also be a place to discuss how c++ is used in Qt, scenarios where "plain c++" (libraries, classes, functions, ways of doing, ...) can be better suited than the Qt provided.
Let's wait for the forum so we can get started and see what people will come up with. I just want to make sure that we don't "constraint" too much ourselves with a narrow forum description.
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Let us see how this will work for all the members of Qt Developer Network.
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Here is our "shiny new C++ forum":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewforum/36/!
I'll move some threads over to it... please feel free to suggest threads to move:-)