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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] lightweight graphics toolkits (was Experiencing with GtkBuilder)
Le 02/12/2015 19:18, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> > The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and
> office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another
> kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom
> applications; these people don't care of look and feel, but they care
> with development time.
>
> Yes, but if you're implying that the cost in development time is only
> worth
> it for massively complex apps like browsers and office suites, that's a
> bit of a mischaracterization.


     Not massively complex but massively used: development cost is
justified by the usage. If 3 persons are to use the app for 3 years,
you won't invest as much as for 10 milions using it for 10 years.


> Qt even has a declarative language geared
> toward simple custom interfaces for just the type of developers you
> describe.


     Hadn't even heared of Qt in 2003, when I developped my GUIs.
AFAIK Qt libraries are in C++, a language I dislike, but I've seen
there's an Ada binding for it :-)


     Dunno what a "declarative language" means. Does it mean a
kind of non-imperative language like Make, Flex, Bison?


     Since you say it's simple to use, I will consider it the next time
I want to write a GUI. Thanks a lot.


     Didier