Re: DIa Port to Java

[Alex Mandel <tech_dev wildintellect com>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 23:31 +0100, Enrique ArizÃn wrote:
> > A Java port looks quite interesting.
> >
> >  If you are going to develop it the Open Source way,
> > just let us known so we can browse the code.
> >
> >  I would like to help, but day has only 24 hours and
> > I'm already "forked" :(
> >
> >  Postcript:
> >  Is there an strong technical reason to use Java? I
> > think Java is great and a big step forward when
> > compared to C, unless raw speed is a must, still I
> > guess Python is a better option for desktop apps. 
>
> Python would make the Python plug-in a lot easier:)  It's also not a bad
> language, I've recently used it with enjoyment in making a webservice on
> top of a database (mod_python + Publisher + simplejson rocks!).
> However, I have yet to find a development environment that's better than
> Emacs, and that doesn't give anything like the support for development
> that Java IDEs give.  I may have missed something, but languages as
> dynamic as Python would be difficult to make an effective IDE for --
> things are just so malleable that the large-scale analyses necessary are
> hard to impossible to make.
>
> -Lars

Depends on what you're looking for in an IDE.
Oddly enough the Eclipse PyDev plugin is ok, debugger sucks though

But my preference right now is for:
boa-constructor (good debugger<-interactive, and gui builder)
Stani's Python Editor
Both of those have GUI builders for use with wxWidgets

In terms of more cli like interfaces I've heard great things about
IPython

Alex