On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:03:34 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/28/2011 09:57 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > I'm about to begin work again on a privacy program that I believe will > > fit within the Freedom Box goals. Originally, I was going to develop it > > as a desktop application in Python but, as someone pointed out > > yesterday, Python isn't the right choice for embedded development, so I > > want to base it on a language that could be used in the project. > > I think python is a fine choice. the machines people are currently > talking about targeting have enough RAM to deal with python, and they're > becoming cheaper and more-powerful (and less-energy-intensive) all the time. > > If you're comfortable in python, make it in python. If it becomes too > slow or too resource-hungry to run on a machine with 512MiB of RAM, get > help profiling it and optimize the hotspots. > > Premature optimization is the root of all evil. > > --dkg >
I agree. The plug computers we are currently considering have more RAM and faster processors than the years-old laptop I replaced only recently. It ran plenty of python just fine and still had enough headroom to fit the variety of other intense applications I use for my daily work. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
