One of my favorite writers, Jerry Pournelle, has been publishing his Chaos Manor column in Byte Magazine for darn near forever. It was one of the first magazines I subscribed to in High School and only gave up the subscription after Steve Ciarcia moved on to create Circuit Cellar Ink. Jerry has one of the first 'blogs' at his www.jerrypournelle.com site and I have been reading that for years now -- well before there were such things as 'blogs'.
CMP, the owner of Byte, has finally pulled the plug on it and now Jerry and some of the other columnists from Byte are running their own site at Chaos Manor Reviews. Its worth checking on a daily basis, as is the main Jerry Pournelle site.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
pyGTK for Cross Platform Development
I've been debating the pros and cons of various development environments, from VC++ 6 to the new C# Express from Microsoft to MinGW with GTK+ or wxWidgets. I've finally settled on Python and GTK+ and Glade as the best choice.
This wil provide me access to the massive Windows client base while retaining my love for Linux and elegant designs. Python allows rapid application development, can be packaged up as only the compiled python code for distribution and can be optimized by writing processor intensive sections in c and linking them in.
That said, I now need to go write some code.
This wil provide me access to the massive Windows client base while retaining my love for Linux and elegant designs. Python allows rapid application development, can be packaged up as only the compiled python code for distribution and can be optimized by writing processor intensive sections in c and linking them in.
That said, I now need to go write some code.
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