Hi everyone, I'm Max, another student working on the Drizzle client team with Andreas and Eric Day. I'd like to solicit your input regarding some choices about the language we will write the client in.
We're currently leaning towards implementing the client in Python. Initially, the project was to be in C++, but we would like to use Python because of its elegance, portability, and ease of use. We feel the client will be easier to maintain and extend if it is written in Python. Thus, we have a few questions... 1) How do you feel about Python as a language choice? Would Python be a good language to code a Drizzle client in? 2) Would you be unable to use a client written in Python 3? What is the oldest version of Python we should support? 3) How important a factor is performance in our language choice and design of the client? What sort of demand, in terms of network, disk, and CPU usage, should we design our client to handle? Is it acceptable to choose a language that may be slower in some cases for the task? Thank you, --Max _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
