On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I used to by a big Python fan, many years ago [1]. I stopped using it after > discovering REALbasic, because my main developmental need is to write > desktop applications that are as native as possible on each platform, and > because I really like a strongly-typed language with a good IDE. At the > time (circa 2000), Python just didn't cut the mustard in this regard. > (Indeed, none of the standard cross-platform C libraries -- Tk, QT, > wxWidgets -- worked worth a darn on the Mac, at least at that time.) > > But REALbasic is a commercial, closed-source project with a small > development team, and I find myself consistently frustrated by quality > issues (read "bugs"). I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid > stability of Python, and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit > testing could mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. > > But that still leaves the other issue: creating high-quality desktop apps > that look and feel just as good to users as anything written in the > "standard" tools for each platform (Cocoa, .NET, etc.). REALbasic still > does a great job of that (when it works at all). What's the state of the > art in desktop app development in Python these days? > > Also, apart from simply searching with Google, is there anyplace I could go > to find a good Python contractor to build a cross-platform desktop app demo? > > Many thanks, > - Joe
wxPython and Qts Mac support are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in 2000, I would strongly suggest giving them another look. I know several that people in the wx community do contract work (or even just in bounties, if there are toolkit issues you'd like solved), take a look at wxwidgets.org for that. There's also the Python job board at python.org. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
