in 337513 20080310 115744 "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roopan wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I am looking at developing an enterprise-grade distributed data >> sharing application - key requirements are productivity and platform >> portability. >> >> Will it be sensible to use C++ for performance-critical sections and >> Python for all the glue logic. >> >> Pls comment from your *experiences* how Python scales to large >> projects( > 200KLOC). >> I assume the C++/Python binding is fairly painless. > >It depends. There are good wrappers out there, I personally prefer SIP. >However, a mixed language environment is always a PITA, especially for >distribution. > >If you can, write everything in python. Identify bottlenecks, and if you >must, I suggest using C + ctypes for performance-critical code. > >Obviously it's a matter of taste, but C++ is a beast, and getting it to work >seamless under varying compilers and OSes could be avoided using plain C. > >Diez
Java is more portable than most other languages, especially if your app needs a gui. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
