10 Apr
2004
10 Apr
'04
12:42 p.m.
Samuel Abels:
Despite the fact that this is often discussed as a matter of religion, I
prefer gtkmm because it fits better into the GNOME environment.
Also, this is from the gtkmm-documentation:
http://www.murrayc.com/murray/talks/2002/GUADEC3/notes/html/index.html#id27…
"QT originates from a time when C++ was not standardised or well
supported by compilers. Its design today is still based upon the choices
available at that time, so it does not play well with more up-to-date
code. Development of QT is still effectively closed - There is still no
public development mailing list, and TrollTech have the normal corporate
conservatism. As an open-source project, its design would have been
improved through public debate, and it would have been possible to
jettison the baggage.
<snip>
As nice as Ardour may be, I personaly still prefer the
interfaces of
modern UI toolkits, in combination with a nice Object Oriented language
(aka C++ :) ).
If you want to write C++, why do you want GTK??? Use a C++-toolkit like Qt. So, in essence, gtkmm does it in a more C++ way. :-)
(But please let us
not make this a flame; may everyone be free to choose whatever toolkit
he likes best. ;) )
Then my question becomes:
Why on earth use C++? Use a desent high-level non-crippled language like
lisp, python or ruby. The lowlevel stuff must of course be written in
c/c++ or something, but only a very small amount of multitracker-code is
that low-level. Yes, I have made _huge_ programs in C myself, but that was
only because I was so damned inexperienced and had so damned slow machine
to work on at the time.
Today, where there are so many descent libraries for
lisp/python/ruby/ada(?)/etc(?), and the machines are so fast,
as good as no one should use c++ for high-level things. You'll
waste time.
Yes, this might start a flame-war, but I really think people
should be aware of the C/C++-stupidness.
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