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Well after reading your comment I thought a bit and I think maybe half of what I'm looking for is a change from the types of things I build now. I'm essentially
by mattkrea 13y ago
Well after reading your comment I thought a bit and I think maybe half of what I'm looking for is a change from the types of things I build now. I'm essentially all web at the moment. APIs, TCP & UDP, aqp, etc.
I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ and that has always seemed a language beyond what I could do.
- iends 13y agoGo and QML for desktop apps: https://github.com/go-qml/qml https://github.com/go-qml/qml
- cjbprime 13y ago> I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ node-webkit runs on Linux, that's a pretty reasonable choice for cross-platform development these days. Used by https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable and https://github.com/slate/slate https://github.com/slate/slate, for example. I agree with the suggestion to move to a functional language -- Ruby and Python wouldn't teach you much on top of Node and Go. Doesn't really matter which one -- Scheme, Haskell, Clojure, whichever.
- mattkrea 13y agoI've also used node-webkit but either I can't match the performance of a desktop with my code or node-webkit can't. I'm mainly referring to UI interaction.
- xeroxmalf 13y ago>I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ Lots of Linux apps are also written in Python, so that might be something to look into.