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great! could you explain in detail why you want to replace MOC:

"The redesign allowed us to completely remove the Qt Meta-Object Compiler (moc) system. Moc is a code generator and did not support many aspects of C++ including templates, complex data types, static type checking, and relies heavily on string comparisons. Removing moc improves run time performance, reduces the complexity of the build process, and allows more issues to be detected at compile time."

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Just as someone who uses Qt every day... because its kind of a mess? You already have your compiler preprocessor and the moc is an extra step ahead of that. When the language didn't support templating that made the moc necessary, but nowadays you can do signal / slots the Boost way with templates and without a framework-specific preprocessor to mangle the source files into a string comparison nightmare.

Maybe in the purest sense the fact you cannot just do g++ <qt-program.cpp> -o <binary> kind of sucks. It just makes the whole build process implicitly complicated, and I haven't manually messed with the moc in five years so I've pretty much forgotten the syntax of baking it into homebrew makefiles.

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