On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:36, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: You mentioned Python in the same sentence with "non-crippled language", which clearly proofs your good sense of humor. ;) That set aside, here are some of my reasons: * Audio applications are usually very CPU intensive. Having a complete screen full of different canvases updated all the time *is* CPU intensive. I am not saying that it is impossible to create a GUI fast enough with higher level languages, I am just saying that the difference is significant enough that many users may suffer from it. * Often, there are great advantages in having the whole application use only one language. This has advantages in both, maintainance and performance as well (converting data types is expencive). This is simply wrong. C++ is way faster in many cases. Also, writing a GTK2 GUI in C++ is not slower than using a high level language. In fact, the API is almost identical in most cases. And this is from someone who has created several GTK2 based projects using Perl OOP with GTK2.