On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 17:03 -0700, AD. wrote: > On Jun 7, 10:55 am, ant <shi...@uklinux.net> wrote: > > My concern is simple: I think that Python is doomed to remain a minor > > language unless we crack this problem. > I'm curious why you think fragmented GUI choices is a particular > problem for Python compared to other languages? Or why this is the > main issue holding Python back?
The base assumption is: there is some core issue holding Python back? Nah. > .NET/C# has had preferred GUI APIs come and go and isn't exactly what > I'd call crossplatform, Well, if you use Gtk# for your GUI it is probably one of the [if not "the"] most cross-platform development solution for complex fat-clients. > Looking at the state of other languages and their GUI toolkit > landscape, someone might even come to the conclusion that having one > true GUI toolkit is potentially a bad thing for a language. +1 In the end the relationships with GUI toolkits is far more about tool-chain and documentation then it is about language. If there was an awesome IDE that allowed RAD [of real complex applications] in toolkit X then people will use toolkit X. [Monodevelop and it's awesome Gtk# support for Mono/.NET is a good example; the tool makes the toolkit east to use - people go with the toolkit]. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
