LWN.net Logo

XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

Posted Oct 6, 2012 10:26 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
Parent article: XDC2012: Programming languages for X application development

How about Go? It has some GUI library bindings for GTK, Wx, etc: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/library-bindings

It seems like a nice language that has attracted both C++ and Python developers.

Unfortunately it has some problems with garbage collection for 32-bit apps, but that's less of an issue for GUIs and not an issue for 64-bit - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3814020 and http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909#c29 ... If 32-bit is required, probably Python is a better choice, and the GUI options are much more mature there.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds