Andrej, > On 18.09.2015, at 02:42, Andrej Prsa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am an astrophysicist by day and I can tell > you that most of our field is rapidly migrating all of the UI stuff to > python. […]
> Your mileage may vary, of course, I just figured I'd ask because, if
> subsurface UI was in python, I'd be much better positioned to
> contribute to the code -- for whatever that's worth.
I am a physicist by day and before subsurface adopted Qt the only thing I knew
about C++ was that it existed. At the time, I was really worried about that
decision because I was afraid I could no longer contribute. The opposite turned
out to be true: When you can build on what’s already there, the difference
between C and C++ is infinitesimal (Linus lives on other levels of software
engineering than me so this might be different for him). And I got along with
Qt so much better than with GTK (to a large part because there is good
documentation whereas it was in infinite trail an error for GTK for me) that I
am now happy working on UI elements myself (at least up to mild complexity).
Just my $.02.
Robert
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