Question about development languages
Brent Fox
bfox at redhat.com
Tue Nov 4 16:56:44 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:15, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Agreed. I wrote a fully functional networked GUI app in a couple hours
> w/ Python and PyGTK the other week, and I've never made a GUI before,
> and haven't used Python in *years*. Picking up Python and GTK+ is as
> simple as it can possibly get.
For more complicated GUIs, Glade can help you build the interfaces. For
simpler UIs, I do them by hand. But for programs like
redhat-config-kickstart which have tons of widgets, Glade really saves a
lot of time. Creating all that widget code by hand would have been
tedious and would have really increased the line count.
I feel that Python has a great deal of untapped potential. Wrapping a
decent IDE around Python and using something like Glade for the UI
builder would give us an open source equivalent to Visual Basic. It
would provide a rapid application development environment for Windows
developers looking to migrate to Linux.
Maybe Eclipse has something for Python; I'll have to check.
Cheers,
Brent
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