Re: C vs C++ for GTK

[Benoît Dejean <benoit placenet org>]

Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 10:47 +0100, Tomas Carnecky a écrit :
> Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > One reason for going with C is that the great bulk of free 
> > software is in C, including GLib and GTK.  The main exception 
> > is Qt, the basis for KDE.  So if you might want to get into KDE 
> > programming, maybe learning C++ would be better.
> 
> You can use gtk in C++, there's gtkmm which is a thin wrapper on top of
> gtk! Many good gtk apps are written in gtk. So actually when using gtk
> you are less restricted in your programing language choice than with Qt.

I wouldn't call GTKmm thin. It's smart and changes the way you can use
GTK+. The best example is treeview: in C or python, they are not
typesafe, i.e. you can get runtime errors because you inserted the
wrong datatype in the wrong column. Gtkmm provides typesafe treeview at
compile type. This is amazing.
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Benoît Dejean
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