On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Michele Alex D. De Pascalis <[email protected]> wrote: > Just look around: Apple and Microsofts have their own SDKs, APIs and IDEs > perfectly working with them. Compared to these, developing for GNOME is way > too hard and complicated. Maybe we have the fastest software, but we have to > write with Gtk, which is just a toolkit, without anything else really > integrating it. And C is over, so autogenerating a wrapper isn't a good > solution (talking about gtkmm). If a newbie gets in touch with Cocoa and > Xcode, he gets templates, he gets wide documentation, he connects events with > handlers by a drag'n'drop, cutting on the IDE's editor. > But it's not just about the IDE itself, it's also about paradigms: Apple > chose Model View Controller and Delegation, and everything is written around > these, and it takes seconds to add a View to your application. > I'm saying this because I've been learning Cocoa for eight months, and I had > learnt C++ before. Even now I know C++ is better in many ways, but trying > back Gtk made me understand it's not about the language, now. Those who write > iOS or Mac apps know what I mean with all this.
Completely agree. I think that a lot of other GNOME contributors would agree also. I really hope that we will have an SDK one day. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
