<quote who="Hal Ashburner"> > Out of interest, does anybody know the best way to write GUI based apps > fast under Linux? There might be a bit of a market down that path over the > next couple of years as a bunch of organisations migrate to Linux for all > the right reasons, then realise they have a bunch of apps that have to be > ported that are written in VB & VBA... > Perl Tk? > Tcl/Tk? > Glade perl? > Python Tk? > XBasic? > evem Kylix? (Not free, boo!)
My choice is the dynamic, kickarse team of Python, Glade, libglade and GTK+. The Mono (C# at the moment), Glade, libglade and GTK+ choice is growing on me. PyQt is also pretty good, though I've only looked at it briefly. It came up in the other thread, but the Mono C#/VB choice may be good for porting apps between Windows and capital-F Free platforms. I think that Python and Mono/C# will end up being the popular language choices, as they are easy to work with, easy to integrate with existing code, cross-platform, maintainable, have excellent standard libraries, and are improving rapidly. The toolkit choice on top of that is... more controversial. :-) > Anyone know anything about Qt's recent relase of a scripting language? [ That's "Qt Scripting for Applications", the same kind of thing as "Visual Basic for Applications" in the MS world - embeddable scripting language stuff, ECMAScript (JavaScript) style. ] - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ make: *** No rule to make target `whoopee'. Stop. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
