How usable is Qt without its preprocessing step?

Question

I think it\'s unreasonable for a library to require preprocessing of my source code with a special tool. That said, several people have recommended the Qt library to me for cros

Answer 1

I don't have a full answer, but as I understand it, moc mainly (or perhaps only) generates additional C++ code. So potentially there's nothing it does that you couldn't also do yourself manually. However, I have no idea how tedious that might be nor how much study it might take to understand all the necessary concepts and details that go into that code.

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Also, as I side note: In my opinion, the reason you're getting as much defense of Qt and moc is because you started your question with the strongly worded "I think it's unreasonable" which is easily interpreted to mean that you don't think moc should ever have existed. This distracts from your actual question. I think it would have been better just to say "moc doesn't fit into my build system" or simply "I have my own reasons for not wanting to use it".