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Cocoa (Score:2)
QT [trolltech.com] looked interesting, but C++? You've got to be kidding.
Many years ago, I confess to purchasing a Motif [opengroup.org] programming manual. I started reading and never wrote a single line of code such was my revulsion.
Plus, what Aristotle said about Tk.
On the whole though, writing GUI programs makes me realise why I like the command line so much…
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FWIW, I really don’t hate Gtk2 [cpan.org]. The docs can be a bit sparse at times, mind, but I haven’t found much to complain about in the framework as such, and the quality of the bindings is superb. They have had serious effort (both conceptual and labour-wise) put into them by a large group of people over a long time and the spit and polish really shows.
I have to say that wiring up event handlers and juggling widgets in a language that has closures and automatic memory management is so much nicer than
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I played with the Perl GTK bindings briefly circa early 2002. I recall that I really liked them, but at the time I think I was a Gnome fanboy. I had a graduate-level machine learning class in which we were using matlab as our standing programming and GUI tool, and I was actually planning on using Perl, PDL, and GTK instead for a while.
But I remember zilch, and I realize I have very little basis for comparison amongst other GUI toolkits. My opinion that GTK was great, or that I really like Swing (I'm st
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Re:Cocoa (Score:1)
Note that I’m talking about Gtk2, the bindings for gtk+ 2.0, not Gtk-Perl, the bindings for gtk+ 1.2. The latter were far more rudimentary and have long since been abandoned, as has the underlying toolkit.
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