XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development [LWN.net]

XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

Posted Oct 6, 2012 5:09 UTC (Sat) by lamawithonel (subscriber, #86149)
In reply to: XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development by boudewijn
Parent article: XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

PyQt was my first thought. I've never actually tried it, but I've encountered enough quality applications using it that I would give it a go if I were starting a new project. A few examples I can think of off hand: the Eric IDE, HPLIP, the Calibre ebook manager, and Amarok, the KDE audio player.

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XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

Posted Oct 6, 2012 12:32 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Amarok is written in C++...

$ sloccount amarok-2.6.0/
...
Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
cpp:         213236 (98.15%)
ansic:         2595 (1.19%)
xml:           1267 (0.58%)
ruby:            62 (0.03%)
python:          54 (0.02%)
perl:            27 (0.01%)
sh:              10 (0.00%)
...