On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote:
Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica:
The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best
2nd/runtime/scripting language?"
In 2010/2011, given that Gnucash isn't a game, there is really only one
choice: Javascript. While http://live.gnome.org/Gjs seems rather dead,
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell is obviously committed to Javascript (and
Gjs as the binding toolkit). The low-level infrastructure is there, Gnome
3.0/GnomeShell 1.0 time frame is shorter then Gnucash 2.6, at the very
least.
As I've written in my other message: Yes. A scripting language might be even
better than any compiled language such as C++. I would love to see an example
project which shows how something similar to gnucash can be build using
Javascript. I'm not familiar with GnomeShell so far, so I won't work on such
an experiment as a starter. But if someone can show to us how something
similar to gnucash would be started in Javascript, I would surely consider
this a very good option to choose.
Hmm, I just would like to point out that GnuCash was kind of a script once:
It was a guile script that called the C/gtk/gnome code (OK, the GUI code
was not directly scripted). It took us a long time to rework this back to
a C application that called guile for the reports ...
I am not that sure that an interpreted language is a good idea. But I am
an electrical engineer not a computer scientist. So I tend to prefer
languages that are closer to the hardware ...
Herbert.
One minor issue against the language, though: IMHO the syntax sucks. Also, for
a newcomer it sucks that the syntax tricks you into thinking it were similar
to Java. It is not, not at all. In reality it is rather much more similar to
Scheme (heh), but the syntax tries its best to hide this from the programmer.
Ok, maybe that's just the beginner's learning curve, but currently I don't
like the language. You are heartly invited to prove me otherwise.
Best Regards,
Christian
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