Programming Languages For X Applications

[Detructor]

Well, he is an academic. Those are among the most misinformed people I know of, to the point of being completely detached from actual reality.

well, I didn't saw the videos but...everyone who writes a GUI based program in C or C++ should be thrown into a desert, far away from any technology so that he can't do any further damage to humanity.

[Linuxhippy]

Well, he is an academic. Those are among the most misinformed people I know of, to the point of being completely detached from actual reality.

Although I really didn't get the conclusion of the talk (except that the choice of PL does matter of course), I just have to agree with him: GTK+ is a pain in the ass.
Its also one of the reasons so little development (and optimizations - every GTK release since 1.2 has only gotten slower) happens inside of GTK+ itself, its just plain hard - adding a single public method requires the developer to add code to about ~4 different places, just because they still stick to C and emulate object orientation by abusing macros and structurs.

[RealNC]

Well, he is an academic. Those are among the most misinformed people I know of, to the point of being completely detached from actual reality.

[Ex-Cyber]

I don't see how he ever actually made the case for the focus on languages (though I skipped some of the Q&A). Basically, a lot of his explanations come off to me as "someone wrote a problematic toolkit in/for <language> that became popular, therefore we should abandon <language> for desktop application development". It's not as though GTK+ or Qt represent the height of elegantly idiomatic C or C++. Had that been the case, I think his point would have made a lot more sense as stated.

[F i L]

This is why I like D. Convenience + Power/Efficiency. Still needs work though (better GC, ARM support, etc)

[mybug]

Great talk!
I still remember the day I wrote my first GUI app using WINAPI in C++, so much effort for something that should normally be simple.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Programming Languages For X Applications

Bart Massey, an X.Org Foundation Board of Directors member and Portland State University employee, shared his opinions this week on programming languages for X applications and the web vs. the desktop...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5MDc