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Can I use scripting languages like Ruby or Python? Is this a good idea?
by tcarnell 16y ago
Can I use scripting languages like Ruby or Python? Is this a good idea?
- stonemetal 16y agoSure you could use a scripting language, python has tkinter built in and 3d party bindings to all the major cross platform tool kits. Ruby is probably similarly capable. Is it a good idea? Depends on how heavy an app it is going to be. If it is just a rich interface to your web services it is probably a good idea. If it is going to be a heavier app that might need some native modules for performance I would be a little gun shy. The whole distribution and support chain would be new to me. At that point it might make more sense to do it in java.
- Turing_Machine 16y agoHmm... maybe JRuby? It's reasonably performant nowadays, and has great interop with Java (which the OP knows already). You could write parts of it in Java if it needed to be faster, or even in C via JNA (or --ugh-- JNI).