> Additionally, there are many things you
> can do in other languages that you just can't do in C++

Or with any patterns that are designed around first-class functions or
functors (sorting, mapping, filtering, etc.), you can do
it in C++ - just with a lot of pain and some pretty bizarre error
messages if you get it slightly wrong.

Regards,
Robert.

2008/12/1 Richard Dale <rdale@foton.es>:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 09:00:13 Luciano Montanaro wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Matthias Burtscher
>>
>> <matthias.burtscher@gmx.at> wrote:
>> > Hello out there!
>> >
>> > Yesterday I had the pleasure to listen to speech on KDE4 (especially KDE
>> > 4.2 and future) again and I really like it. I think that KDE has much
>> > more potential to be the one future desktop on Linux. I'm saying this
>> > although I'm using Gnome (Ubuntu) mostly.
>> >
>> > But I am wondering why there is no approach to bring new technologies
>> > like Mono into KDE. I think it would be a much more developer friendly
>> > and also faster and cleaner way to build applications. And I think that
>> > most of you - who know the concept behind Mono/.Net - agree with this.
>> >
>> > I know that there are QT bindings (Qyoto) for Mono/.Net, but I miss
>> > bindings/libraries for the KDE core. There isn't even any page on the
>> > KDE website which covers the topic of developing for KDE on Mono basis.
>> >
>> > Since I'm not the guru who has the know-how to create these libraries
>> > and bindings, I just want to know if there is any approach on providing
>> > such things or not.
>>
>> I know there are Qt binding for mono but...
>> Hasn't mono its own libraries, doing roughly what Qt offers?
>> I think binding an application to both Qt and mono would increase
>> dependancies without any great advantage.
>>
>> Now if you already have a mono application, and want some optional
>> integration with KDE, it could be useful.
>>
>> But if you want to develop a new KDE application, I think there are
>> better options:
> You're welcome to use them then. Other people may well have different
> preferences to you and enjoy writing code in C#/ Basic .NET and the other CLR
> based languages.
>
>> -Qt/C++ native applications
> Yes obviously very good if you can code in C++ and enjoy doing it, then KDE is
> a great framework for writing apps in C++.
>
> Not everyone can write in C++ though. Additionally, there are many things you
> can do in other languages that you just can't do in C++, even if you know C++
> well.
>
>> -Qt/Java is supported by the trolls
> There are no QtJambi based bindings for KDE4.
>
>> -Python bindings for Qt are being used quite a lot already, as far as I
>> see...
> Well Python isn't exactly similar to C#.
>
> Note that there are very complete Ruby bindings for a huge set of the Qt and
> KDE frameworks too.
>
> -- Richard
>
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