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I want to get in to a bit of Linux application development. What programming language are the majority of GUI apps made in?
It usually largely depends on the DE (desktop environment) you are focusing on; each usually has one GUI toolkit that it's using the most.
For instance, GNOME mostly uses GTK+; and since GTK+ is written in C, many Linux GTK+ GUI apps use that, but there are also bindings to other languages, like Python, which I've also seen used often. And there are bindings for other languages too.
On the other hand you have KDE, which is mostly based on Qt; and, since Qt is written in C++, most apps using Qt are also written in C++.
However, honestly the choice of language doesn't matter much; it's more the toolkit that matters. I'd pick the one your DE uses, and then choose one of the languages it supports.
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When is the use of C/C++ more appropriate than the use of very high level programming languages like python?
Countless reasons...
You need to use an essential library that works best in C or C++
You are not interested in learning a new language
You need to access system APIs or resources not available in Python
Your project structure is better suited for the syntax of C or C++
You want to use features of C or C++ that you cannot get in Python, most notably compile-time checks. Or you know, switch statements.
External tool support, for example static analysis is much harder for Python.
Performance
The project is already written in C++ and you don't want to port it
You want to ensure that it can be run on a minimal installation without an interpreter
You need debugging info from the client machine in the form of a debuggable minidump
You just don't like Python
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First of all, I would NOT like to incite any fanboy or flaming wars, like my language is better than yours.
My question is which programming languages support TRUE interoperability of software written on them, between the most common platforms (MacOS, Windows, Linux), without that particular software having a high percentage of it rewritten in order for it to work on another platform.
I do not wish to receive fanboy answers. Please provide valid answers, for instance 'Java supports interoperability between various operating systems, because *xyz*' or 'Python does because *abc*'
Python + PyQt are truly cross-platform because to run an .py script, you need Python interpreter installed in your system, which is all the same on all operating systems. PyQt is also cross platform, and can have a nice, native look in these three systems you mentioned.
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Apart from C, C++, Delphi, VB, can you put an example of a relatively "modern" COMPILED* programming language* supporting things like OO, collections, GUI libraries?
Please do not mention experimental or academic only languages, I'm looking for something used in the real world, for PCs 80x86, and I don't mind about the OS.
Thanks!
*UPDATED: Compiled to native code.
*DISCLAIMER:
For language understand language implementation.
For compiled to native code understand not interpreted.
Haskell.
Source: http://www.realworldhaskell.org/
Cython. Compiles to native code, is used in high performance computing, both academic and commercial, and is used to implement LXML. GUI libraries include all those available for Python.
Also, Objective-C. That's now one of the most popular programming languages.
Wikipedia has a lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages
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Urgently want to know best UML designing tool in Linux?
Which Also Support ERD
Is it Possible to use in NetBEANs IDE 6.9.1
Almost all UML tools are Linux compliant.
Try Papurus with Eclipse or BOUML which are free and open source. RSA is pretty good as well as Omondo but not free.
I use and prefer Umbrello.
ArgoUML is also quite good but its GUI bugs will drive you mad...
I never had any problems with dia. It's part of gnome, almost all distributions package it. Also has a Windows version but I didn't use that one for a long time. Of course, "best" is relative to what you are expecting from it.
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I was reading through an answer to a question about an IDE for Go that triggered this question.
I was trying to think of a language that 'required' an IDE, but could not come up with one.
Many of the "graphical languages" more or less require an IDE. They aren't particularly popular at the moment, but the general idea is a "language" where you create programs by drawing some sort of diagram. Depending on the intended market, you frequently see something with a flavor or UML or ERD or even flowcharting, depending on the intended market, age of the tool, and level of obfuscation versatility and ease of use the inventor/vendor desires.
While most of these allow you to store the data in some sort of more or less textual format, they consider the diagram (of whatever sort) to be the language, and anything else is only a way of storing/recreating the diagram.
Some types of 4G Languages would probably come up as requiring an IDE (being an IDE themselves).
All Smalltalks I know of except for GNU Smalltalk are very deeply integrated with their development environments.