tbh, the only reason I use GTK is because it is C. While C++ is probably a better choice. C allows you to easier integrate it with pretty much any language of your choosing easily (Vala, Ruby, PHP (lol), Python, Rust, Go, Perl, Lua, Javascript, etc) that in itself is a really good reason.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:22 PM, 黄羽众 <ih...@163.com> wrote: > For the past few time, I am using gtkmm to development GUI application, > and I am really enjoy it. > > I know that choose C as its implementation language makes gtk gain a > wonderful performance, > but recently GCC turn to C++. https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html > > I think that as a complier which have to think a lot about performance, it > turn to C++ for code elegance and development speed, > a GUI application have no reason to continue using C stuff. > > Actually gtk implement a object system as its essential part, that did > prove that GUI application need a object-oriented design. > And C++ could provide this as a language level feaure, needless to > implement it in application code. > > So I suggest that it is possible to develop gtk in c++ as main-line > support? > > Unlike gtkmm, which is just a wrapper from c++ to c, turn to c++ in > main-line means a lot. > > GCC choose this and get good result, I think gtk could have a try. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > >
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