On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:30:04PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote: > > > ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is > > > documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of > > > GNU/Fedora > > > it's... like GTK: it sucks, there are alternatives but it's a PITA to port > > > away 'cause a lot of big codebases uses them as foundation. > > > > So there are alternatives to GTK: Do any suck less? What are they? > > > What's wrong with GTK? I don't care for it, but it is not any worse than > Microsoft's UI. > > There are lots of alternatives. wxWidgets and Qt are the most common > suggestions, but there are far more esoteric ones. If you are aiming for > widest portability support, Qt is probably your best bet. > > I don't care for it myself - because it is C++. I do not believe in OOP as a > decent paradigm for software development. I'm know I am in the minority, but > I am not alone. Even Google has reined in use of some of the worst features > of OOP. Programmers working for Google are not allowed to use exceptions.
I believe in OOP as a tool in my toolkit, but I do not believe in C++. If you want to see an example of statically typed OOP done right, look at Modula 3. Although the syntax is excessively wordy, the semantics is clean. > > Laters! > > T.J. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
