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Agreed. There's only so much skilled labor available for this kind of thing. This is exactly why I'm focusing on Python lately. Ruby is a great language but I
by cageface 16y ago
Agreed. There's only so much skilled labor available for this kind of thing.
This is exactly why I'm focusing on Python lately. Ruby is a great language but I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a web guy forever. I've already done over 10 years of web dev and I'd like to try out a couple of new problem domains before I kick the bucket.
- djacobs 16y agoI'll have to agree as well. The only problem for me is: if not on the web, how are we going to make GUIs that aren't severely limited to our platform? Wasn't web design supposed to solve the "platform question"?
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoThere are a number of cross-platform GUI toolkits. For instance, QT is pretty nice wherever you put it, and KDE's been putting a lot of work into making their libraries and such work on Windows.
- djacobs 16y agoI'm not a huge fan of Qt simply because I can't get it to feel natural on Gnome, my desktop of choice. I've looked into Gtk+, but I'm not so sure I want to commit to it yet. Are there plans to make Qt feel more natural on Gnome and OS X?