Patrick wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > Sorry for the flame war bait, I know how passionate language debates > get but I need some guidance. I am using PyGTK right now and I am happy > with it, but a day is coming soon were the speed limitations and > less-then-straight-forward threading will be an issue.
I don't see any reason at all why a GUI done with PyGTK should be any slower than a GUI done with straight C. Thus I don't see any compelling reason to abandon Python for C or C++. That said, however, Python sometimes isn't the right language to use for computationally-intensive tasks. Personally I think you are going about this the wrong way. You could be wanting to do premature optimization. Rather than trying to replace python, you should consider either extending python with C or C++, to replace the slowest and most-used computational paths, and stick with python for everything else. It's very easy to write python modules in C (10 hours to learn), or C++ (Boost makes it easy to wrap C++ classes and functions). Alternatively you can code in C or C++ and embed Python to drive your GUI. > > I figure my next move should be to learn C or C++. I would like to stay > up-to-date with things and I would like to be able to reuse GTK code > from other Apps. When it comes to the basic API, translating a code-generated GUI between python and C++ (with GTKmm) should be very simple. Even translating it to C won't be that hard either, except that you don't have an easy way to bind callbacks to a particular instance of data without some work, like setting data values and using the void *data argument on the callbacks. > > I thought that C++ must be the way to go as it can do everything that C > can "plus plus" but some heavy hitters don't seem enthused with it, > Linus Torvalds in particular has been quoted as calling it a "horrible > language". >From my experience it is those that don't understand C++ and how to wield it that describe it that way. Torvalds is biased anyway, since he's focused on kernel programming. > > I can only spend 8-12 hours a week programming, I am not a professional > programmer, is C++ to complicated? Is C going out of date? Am I limited > with C? C++ is complicated, but not overly so. I feel that coming from Python, C++ is probably going to be easier for you to move to than C. Again, though, I think > > Thanks-Patrick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
