Should C++ be deprecated?

Posted Sep 18, 2025 14:10 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: Should C++ be deprecated? by Wol
Parent article: Comparing Rust to Carbon

Do you have any good replacement for Qt then? Because until you do I don't think that's going to happen.

And Qt is just an example out of many.

Should C++ be deprecated?

Posted Sep 18, 2025 14:55 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

https://blog.logrocket.com/state-rust-gui-libraries/ lists 11 GUI libraries … presumably one of them will serve whatever your particular usecase is.

Frankly, Qt is an arcane and very-difficult-to-debug mess (and so is GTK). Proof: Just start about any nontrivial program in the console and watch the warnings scroll by.

That being said, bindings for Rust/Qt do exist. Assuming they're written well, they can go quite some way towards safe-ing your GUI code. You don't need to replace 100% of your code all at once, after all. A hundred 1%-sized steps work just as well.