On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:19, Dan H wrote: > Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My recommendation is to choose a garbage collected language for GUI > > work as it makes everything so much easier. Lots of GCd languages > > have GTK bindings these days. > > Just for the record, garbage collection (which is a good idea) doesn't have > to be a feature of the language itself (it isn't for C++, by the way). Just > build and link your C (or C++) program with libgc (the renowned Boehm > garbage collector) and you're fine.
I would strongly recommend choosing a language that provides accurate GC rather than using something like Boehm's GC with C/C++. The main reason is that using Boehm on C/C++ code that wasn't designed for Boehm can break working code (see, for example, numerical recipies). Another reason is that languages designed to be GCd will be a lot faster. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
