On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:04:34 +0000, "Øyvind Kolås" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question I find more interesting than which GUI toolkit should be > used however is which programming language should be used for > developing the GUI. I think both > C and C++ are the wrong languages for writing the user interface of an > application (or at least the entire user interface, some performance > critical widgets can with > benefit be written in these languages though.)
I'll throw in the D Programming Language[1], I've been looking at D for some time, eager to get down and dirty with it. ;-) Not having had a deep look into Vala, it appears to me that it is doing something similar, that is "a better C with classes, but no C++ Fuckups." ;-) There also is GTK for D[2]. > So let me be be clear, I do not encourage writing a GUI for a large > scale application from scratch in C nor C++ with GTK. If a higher > level dynamic language is used it will be a decision I am willing to > support that I think is sensible and will lead to less developer > cycles being wasted. Having hinted to D above, I for one would still vote for Qt, or a C++ Variant of GTK+. Simple because I use C++ quite often, even though I have to add that I hate it passionately. If used with a little common sense though, it is not that bad. Just pretend to be using "C with classes". Cheers -Richard [1] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
