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woboq / qmetaobject-rs

Integrate Qml and Rust by building the QMetaObject at compile time.
MIT License
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Production ready? #280

Closed nrbnlulu closed 1 year ago

nrbnlulu commented 1 year ago

Is this project production ready?
Why would one risk to use this instead C++ since this could be abandoned at any time?

surban commented 1 year ago

Yes, we are using it in production and it's working fine for us.

Of course there is always the risk of an open source project not being developed any further, but in this case it won't be much effort for you to maintain qmetaobject for your product. After all it is "just" a thin Rust wrapper around C++ classes. Once you understand how it works adding new functionality is quite easy. Unless the architecture of Qt changes dramatically no large modifications will be required to keep qmetaobject running.

The big benefit is that you can write your whole application in Rust instead of C++. We did the switch and never looked back. Although interfacing QML to Rust has become a bit more difficult (mostly due to missing documentation and examples), the benefits of using Rust over C++ for the rest of the application logic greatly outweighs this.

nrbnlulu commented 1 year ago

@surban Thanks for the response.

Do you know who are the current maintainers?

Also do I need to commit to Qt's licensing for this project?

surban commented 1 year ago

I am also just a user and don't have more information.

Since you are linking Qt libraries you will have to fully comply with the Qt license.

nrbnlulu commented 1 year ago

seems like CXX-qt is better maintained

ogoffart commented 1 year ago

See also https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs/discussions/276