Jon Harrop wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2007 22:11, Patrick wrote: >> 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". > > IIRC, Linus said that specifically in the context of systems programming. > > My recommendation is to choose a garbage collected language for GUI work as > it > makes everything so much easier. Lots of GCd languages have GTK bindings > these days.
Just because a language or library implements garbage collection doesn't mean you don't need to manage resources. Especially when you're working with a GUI. It's totally possible to leak memory in Python, C# or any other managed language if you don't know what you are doing. It's a bit harder, but still a problem. Recently the Darpa autonomous vehicle challenge was lost by one group because their C# control system was leaking very badly, requiring a restart every 30 minutes or so. GTKmm is based on some very nice C++ abstractions around pointers, providing many of the same benefits as any managed language with pure C++. They are called smart pointers and for GUI development, they work very very well. I find GTK in C++ to be almost as productive as python or C# > > Incidentally, has anyone tried GTK# from C# on Mono? Yup. It works awesomely well. It's very clean. Of course I can't think of many reasons to do it anymore. I use python most of the time now. > -- 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
