Star GTK+ State of the Union, Plans for 3.0
Linked by Quentin Hartman on Mon 14th Jul 2008 08:46 UTC, submitted by makkus
GTK+ At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux. Read the full report here.
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RE: private structure fields
by kaiwai on Mon 14th Jul 2008 13:40 UTC in reply to "private structure fields"
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In my humble opinion this is yet another example that object-oriented programming in C is a bad idea and that when you start doing this, it is more than time to start using C++... in fact I can hardly remember the reason why GTK and GNOME still refuse to use at least some features from C++. The two arguments mentioned are a) "C++ libraries are harder to make bindings for" and b) "C++ doesn't have a standard ABI". Well, as has often been said, these arguments are not convincing: a) there exists Qt bindings to a plethora of languages, and b) since each released distro sticks to one compiler version (like "gcc 4.2.3") it doesn't matter if the C++ ABI is not always preserved across versions.


I know this sounds stupid, but why not Objective-C? I've looked through it, and its a damn site nicer to use and look at than C++. Its well supported and developed for, increasing numbers are taking an interest in it as the user base grows.

Right now Objective-C 2.0 brings garbage collection and many other features. I know it'll take a while, but compared to C++, its the lesser of two evils at the moment.

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