Is moc still there?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Yes.
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Why are you sad?
Because Qt still can't get rid of that preprocessor abomination.
What's wrong with it? It is basically invisible and all done automatically in the background by the build system.
The very fact of its existence. I would like to see Qt as a normal library, not a C++-breaking "framework".
It does not break anything. Just uses C++ and builds upon it and improves it. And MOC comes in when some niceties are required that are hard to do with plain C++ (and be backwards compatible) or when more flexibility is required. If you know how to do it better, well Qt is free (as in freedom) and opensource and you can join the project and replace MOC with a better implementation. Until then it is a not so important detail and foolish to throw away entire Qt and all the numerous goodies and nice things that it brings just for this small detail.
I don't like the way how Qt "improves" C++. I don't like moc. And I think that is enough reason to "throw away entire Qt".