falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Trying to dynamically load and call a C++ shared library is some serious challenge.

mangled names everywhere, vtable shenanigans and if dealing with Qt also qobject/qmetaobject weirdness...

But it works! I am able to dynamically create a QApplication, spawn a QWebEngineView, set some parameters and create a fake QObject class to receive some events.
All without linking to Qt directly, and compatible with both Qt5 and Qt6.

This way if the system does not have gtk3 webkit, Qt is fallback.

🎉

@raphael I removed snap from my system and installed firefox from https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

that seems to be working well so far

@musenhain It depends on the task at hand.
C for small little bits of code that need to run very fast, C++11 for more complex things, a mix of C/C++/web for frontend/visual things.

Sadly C++ is becoming quite disappointing, too much bloat and new design choices that make it look like a whole different language, it might as well be.
Wouldn't mind it so much but libraries now require C++17 and above.

Rust maybe? but only when we get good GCC support. Dont want to carry any cargo in my projects.

@lilith_93@mastodon.social Job is for a Finnish company yes, but I keep myself in Berlin for now.

A little milestone achieved, Carla is working with Qt6 now! 🎉

I wish to be doing other things than updating to new frameworks to stay relevant, but at least Qt5 -> Qt6 compatibility is quite okay.
The annoyance is more on PyQt side that loves to break backwards compat. And Python somewhat too.

I regret having chosen Python for the frontend but a bit too late now since there is quite a lot of code...

GitHub are you ok? what is going on here?

Says unverified and no username with that email, but that is for sure false as that email has been in use for more than a decade now... 😕

A friend of mine is starting her own music band "Eyes Awaiting", a metal duo that "tell stories about human emotions, day-to-day struggles, the mysteries, the deep traumas and the joys of life"

See details on
https://www.eyesawaiting.com/ including their very first music video! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL7OSU6pv6o

Very happy for her, so want to share the news on the fediverse side.
Boosts appreciated, share the love and appreciate some nice music!

@win8linux This is really sad to see, opensource projects using proprietary platforms with awful ToS and privacy policies for communication really should not be a thing...

It is an unofficial channel at least, so the main Haiku devs still have some good sense. But whoever runs this Haiku mastodon account does not.

@unfa congrats! do you know if there is going to be a linux release?

@unfa this is an odd video format... is the guy just reading a blog post? correct me if I am wrong but that seems to be it..

@sampo ah very cool! maybe we should try an updated plugin version at some point too

A very cozy office 😅

It is mostly all unpacked and already usable now.
And yes, we need all 3 fans.

Doing an office + house move in the middle of warm humid weather is really something... 😓

Not sure if any energy remains for assembly now, who needs a kitchen anyway.