[ale] best cross platform development evironment

[Charles Shapiro]

You might want to take a look at wxwidgets ( http://www.wxwidgets.org/
), to get back to the original discussion.  Open source,  I know it
works fine on X and on windows ( and the claim is it's good on Macs as
well), interfaces to a lot of different languages other than C++   I
did a good-sized project ( 8-10 screens off a single root ) in
WxPython which included a pretty weird mapping widget.  It all went
very well, with only minor tweaks needed to keep it running properly
on both platforms.  In addition to python bindings, you find wxWidgets
bindings for Ada, BASIC, Java, Perl, and Lua.

I've worked in QT on KDE as well, it's very complete. I don't know how
it looks on something else though. I found the learning curve to be
fairly hefty, but that might've been 'cause I was restarting C++ after
10 years away from the language.

-- CHS


On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Trying to decide on the best cross platform development environment.
> Right now, considering Java, C++ and QT.
>
> Concerns about Java because of who now owns it.
>
> Have to develop an application that will run on both Windows desktops
> and Linux desktops.
>
> Insights, suggestions?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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