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Originally posted by saluki
On the *NIX side, I really like Python. It's elegant and easy to learn and the code scales well to large projects. The biggest problem I have with programming on *NIX is the graphics toolkits. While I haven't done much work with them, it just seems like there are so many choices that it's hard to find the right one. I don't see Mono (the OSS implementation of .NET) going anywhere.
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I happen to think that "agile" languages like Python and Ruby are the future of programming, but that's only because they're my favorites. That means they are the future of
my programming
The toolkit issue under X11 is a real one, but it's sort of being met by GTK (
http://www.gtk.org/) and wx (
http://www.wxwindows.org/). wxWindows has the advantage of being explicitly cross-platform in a manner that is friendly to the local platform.
A little more interesting to me these days is Jython (
http://www.jython.org/), which is basically Python written in Java instead of C. Slow? You bet. But it makes for a great scripting and prototyping tool. Then, once you've scripted and prototyped everything into the perfect (yet sluggish) image, just run the jythonc compiler over it. Poof! Your prototype is now an app, compiled into Java byte-code, and much much faster. Java is your platform and source of toolkits when you use Jython, so a lot of the X11 chaos is skipped*. Plus, your app runs unaltered under any machine that has a Java interpreter.
Just sharing my obsessions with the team.
* I would like to mention that I actually enjoy a lot of the X11 chaos, and use it for most of my day-to-day activities. Still, if I wanted to make an app that I could plunk down and demonstrate on a broad number of machines and platforms, I'd go for Jython.