I have an uninformed question. What about Python? Forgive the ignorance, I have a series of books and learning it is on my short list this winter. The web site states and I quote below: "Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines." Al
Jim Lux wrote: > At 02:43 PM 10/18/2006, Eric Wachsmann wrote: > >> I'd like to have: >> >> 1. A platform independent GUI. >> 2. An IDE that makes GUI development "nice" (i.e. NOT VC6 style). >> >> I am not stuck on any tool or language at this point as I don't have enough >> information to say, "This is the best tool" or "This is the best language." >> These two obviously go hand in hand. >> >> What I can say is that from a GUI support/development standpoint, I have yet >> to see anything that can compare to Visual Studio .NET 2003 (and this goes >> for 2005 as well) in terms of GUI support/development productivity. The >> catch is that what makes this easy has been built in .NET which is, for all >> practical purposes, Windows only. >> > > which is why you (generically, not Eric specifically) really want a > fork here. Let the Linux UI evolve in a Linux compatible way, using > methods and tools that are congenial for Linux, and the Windows UI > evolve using the capabilities that Windows has. The two OSes are > sufficiently different that cross platform compromise solutions will > be just that, compromise. There ARE some cross platform approaches > which seem to be fairly powerful (e.g. Java) BUT, they have some > non-zero learning curve to get going. > > You also need to consider whether you're genuinely interested in > increasing the number of coding participants significantly (whether > for contributions to the mainline code or for private experiments). > That tends to push towards environments and tools that have wider > existing market penetration (Windows,.NET, VS in the WinXX world, > whatever the equivalents are in the Linux world..I only do GUI in > Windows.. my Linux coding is all command line/script file style) > > > Jim, W6RMK > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
