QtCS2021 - Module roadmaps - updates from maintainers

This pages hosts summaries from mentioned in this session if available as text

QML

• QML roadmap
• Tooling
  • Compilation to C++
  • Better qmllint
  • Improve qmlformat
  • QML language server
  • Finalize CMake API for QML modules
  • Unify Qt Creator’s code model with qtdeclarative’s tools
• QML engine
  • Remove property cache as far as possible
  • Improve support for value types and containers
    • Named user-defined value types
    • Make Qt.foo(…) functions for constructing value types obsolete
  • Move image providers out of QML engine
  • Allow enums as property types
  • Qt for MCU semantics guarded by a pragma, e.g.
    • No overflow from int to double
    • Stricter parent handling
• Best practices enforcement
  • Make plugins optional
  • Avoid QQmlCustomParsers
  • Avoid manual qmlRegister* calls
  • Avoid unqualified root scope access
  • Avoid Duck-typed property access
  • Avoid overloaded Q_PROPERTIES and make new properties FINAL
  • Further things we will identify as QML-to-C++ compiler runs into problems