On Thursday 02 July 2015 22:09:13 Ansel Sermersheim wrote: > Yes, you can use C++11 in your application. Our viewpoint is that Qt > developers should be able to use C++11 internally in the project. They > are slated to allow most of C++11 like decltype, rvalue references, and > lambdas in 2016. However, things like constexpr will still not be allowed.
You have Microsoft to thank for that. Dropping something like 40% of our userbase is not worth constexprs. > More importantly, there are many features of C++11 you cannot use in > your application like smart pointers. Ok, you can use them, but you > cannot use them to interact with Qt. To a modern C++ programmer this > comes across as a significant limitation. On the other hand, existing Qt programmers will feel right at home and their existing applications will continue to run. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
