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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 13, 2011 11:33 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate by paulj
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

"However, how does it follow that the answer to this is C++, as the original commentator suggests?"

Where did I suggest that? A big C project that uses GObject is awfully difficult to get into for a newbie.

Heck, I have spent more than once several weeks getting people up to speed with Qt and C++ so they could contribute to Krita (and C++ with Qt is awfully close to Java for a beginner) so I know that "C++" isn't the answer. I think there is no answer for Gimp -- but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

Spending that time on beginners has almost always been worth it, by the way, with the newcomers becoming valued members of the development team and producing awesome stuff.

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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 19, 2011 21:36 UTC (Wed) by DOT (subscriber, #58786) [Link]

"Heck, I have spent more than once several weeks getting people up to speed with Qt and C++ so they could contribute to Krita (and C++ with Qt is awfully close to Java for a beginner) so I know that "C++" isn't the answer. I think there is no answer for Gimp -- but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem."

Since Vala is embarassingly compatible with C and GObject, it should be possible to write new code in that language where appropriate.

But honestly, I think the problem is not in the code. You'll only have to look at LibreOffice and its awesome community to know that code doesn't really matter. I would start looking for the problem somewhere in human department.