On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:57 AM, David Marceau <uticdmarceau2...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > C++ with gtkmm is straightforward and no qtcreator/gui builder > necessary. Just coding it by hand gives exact results. > ... > I am going to rewrite the same app in golang with the go-gtk binding. I > can foresee it will be the most enjoyable to code. I enjoyed coding web > stuff with golang over any other language by far. IMHO golang is a > better c++.
The less time you spend coding in lowish-level languages like C and C++, the happier you're likely to be. But if you like the bracey style, check out Pike - comes with GTK bindings, and is an excellent language. I heartily recommend it for one overarching reason: it supports the full Unicode range in its native string, efficiently and without UTF-16 warts. If your users' names could be anything at all, you need to support Unicode, and that means you don't want something that represents everything as bytes. I know of only two languages with true full Unicode support, possibly three: Python (as of version 3.3) and Pike, possibly also bash (but that's not an applications language). Both Python and Pike are excellent languages in many ways, and both work well with GTK (Pike comes with bindings, Python you can easily grab a third-party module). ChrisA _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
